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03244aam a2200433 i 4500 001 EE61D9B2E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 170615s2018 njuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017028275 020 $a 069113684X 020 $a 9780691136844 035 $a (OCoLC)990248434 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d MYG $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N8243.S576 $b F56 2018 082 00 $a 709.04 $2 23 100 1 $a Finley, Cheryl, $e author. 245 10 $a Committed to memory : $b the art of the slave ship icon / $c Cheryl Finley. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 306 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 28 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was - shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Finley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film-and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized their ancestors. Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory features works from around the world, taking readers from the United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It shows how contemporary black artists and their allies have used this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma of slavery and come to terms with its legacy. 610 20 $a Brookes (Ship) $v In art. 610 27 $a Brookes (Ship) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01978750 650 0 $a Slave trade in art. 650 0 $a Metaphor in art. 650 0 $a History in art. 650 0 $a Art, Modern $x Themes, motives. 650 7 $a Art, Modern $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816663 650 7 $a History in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958337 650 7 $a Metaphor in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01018297 650 7 $a Slave trade in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904709 653 $a African diaspora 655 7 $a Art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423702 941 $a 2 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829014800.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214020329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE61D9B2E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search