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May 25, 2010
Richard J. Powell Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 296 pp.; 40 color ills.; 76 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780226677279)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.54

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With the recent ushering in of the second decade of the twenty-first century and the Era of Obama, the study of the black body has fully entered the field of art-historical and visual culture studies, along with being one of the most popular sites of social, cultural, and political contestation. In fact it has long been a particularly fertile field for academic rumination and semiotic dissection as well as the subject of numerous art collections...