BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Mass Historical Society: "Copley’s Cato or, The Art of Slavery in the Age of British Liberty" | Jane Kamensky PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_526881_0 SUMMARY:Mass Historical Society: "Copley’s Cato or, The Art of Slavery in the Age of British Liberty" | Jane Kamensky DESCRIPTION:

Jane Kamensky, Harvard History

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These pages from several chapters of Kamensky’s manuscript, Copley: A Life in Color, pull at a knotty thread in Copley’s biography as it did through his world: the tangle of slavery and liberty. We follow the artist as he became, like many in his place and time, an owner of men and women. Shortly thereafter, the painter pioneered images that revolutionized the portrayal of people of African descent in Western art. Our discussion will explore the seeming contradiction between the roles bondspeople played in Copley’s American household and upon his epic British canvases.
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LOCATION:Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3695 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20151006T211500Z DTEND:20151006T233000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR