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Portrait of the Worker as a Black Woman: The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers

Portrait of the Worker as a Black Woman: The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers 765118 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018765118New Labor ForumBooks and the Arts research-article2018 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 102 –117 Books and the Arts Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf portraits, a new exhibition, The Sweat of Their Portrait of the Worker as a Face: Portraying American Workers, on view Black Woman until September 3, 2018, seeks to rethink and The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American expand portraiture. Curated by Dorothy Moss, Workers the Portrait Gallery’s painting and sculpture National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian curator, and historian emeritus David C. Ward, American Art Museum, 2017-2018 the nearly one hundred objects offer representa- tions of American workers from the antebellum Reviewed by: Adom Getachew era to the present. DOI: 10.1177/1095796018765118 Resisting the subsuming and homogenizing quality of laboring, the depictions instead aim to individuate and elevate the American worker. In doing so, the exhibition enacts a democrati- zation of the subject and medium of portraiture. The objects on view range from classic oil on canvas to a 3-D printed sculpture. While this inclusive gesture broadens who is considered worthy of a portrait—an important aim of the exhibition—it also raises the question of in whose http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Portrait of the Worker as a Black Woman: The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers

Getachew, Adom
New Labor Forum , Volume 27 (2): 5 – May 1, 2018
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765118 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018765118New Labor ForumBooks and the Arts research-article2018 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 102 –117 Books and the Arts Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf portraits, a new exhibition, The Sweat of Their Portrait of the Worker as a Face: Portraying American Workers, on view Black Woman until September 3, 2018, seeks to rethink and The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American expand portraiture. Curated by Dorothy Moss, Workers the Portrait Gallery’s painting and sculpture National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian curator, and historian emeritus David C. Ward, American Art Museum, 2017-2018 the nearly one hundred objects offer representa- tions of American workers from the antebellum Reviewed by: Adom Getachew era to the present. DOI: 10.1177/1095796018765118 Resisting the subsuming and homogenizing quality of laboring, the depictions instead aim to individuate and elevate the American worker. In doing so, the exhibition enacts a democrati- zation of the subject and medium of portraiture. The objects on view range from classic oil on canvas to a 3-D printed sculpture. While this inclusive gesture broadens who is considered worthy of a portrait—an important aim of the exhibition—it also raises the question of in whose

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Published: May 1, 2018

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