tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post3754201132220604309..comments2024-03-17T16:32:51.970-04:00Comments on Vast Public Indifference: Here's a StumperCDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14390048358391513711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-61305497776519851072012-10-31T14:07:06.781-04:002012-10-31T14:07:06.781-04:00Hi Keith,
Thanks for reading my work. It's be...Hi Keith,<br /><br />Thanks for reading my work. It's been a while since I wrote about Pompe Stevens, but I actually have a new article about his work that will appear in the online journal Common-place this coming spring.<br /><br />My major goal in researching New England slavery is to better understand the work of craftsmen like Pompe Stevens and Zingo Stevens, along with how these works have been variously ignored, remembered, and reinterpreted by groups with differing motivations. My earlier work on the Pompe/Zingo conflation is part of this, but I have recently moved in more of a museum studies direction, identifying objects that were signed by (or attributed to) African American craftsmen living in New England and the Mid-Atlantic before 1800 or so. I am particularly interested in the ways in which modern museums and institutions use evidence of African cultural survivals as markers of "authenticity" when it comes to identifying early works by black artists. In my forthcoming article, I argue that objects like Pompe Stevens' gravestones, which are formally indistinguishable from a larger body of Euro-American craft objects, should be reinterpreted in light of the abundant evidence that they were created by enslaved craftsmen.Caitlin GD Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317897772288904474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-67288367340511054802012-10-27T17:59:18.753-04:002012-10-27T17:59:18.753-04:00Your piece on Zingo/Pompe Stevens of Newport was w...Your piece on Zingo/Pompe Stevens of Newport was well researched and interesting, but what is your knowledge of African enslavement in Newport? Well intentioned researchers of African American history should be required to read Ralph Ellison's "Invisable Man."<br /><br />Keith Stokes, NewportKeith Stokesnoreply@blogger.com