A rare catalog produced for the exhibition "Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery," which included 60 works co-curated by students from Yale University and the University of Maryland that address, question, and complicate the paradigms that have mapped meanings onto African American bodies throughout history. The fully illustrated catalog includes examples of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and photographs along with an essay on the YUAG’s history of collecting African American art, a personal reflection on the subject by renowned scholar of African American art and culture Robert E. Steele, and brief catalogue entries on each object written by the student curators. This inspiring exhibition and its catalog calls on the audience to reconsider how we’ve defined African American Art. Out of print.
