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“In Art as Sanctuary, Michael Harris revisits a selection of significant works by African American artists and reframes them in ways that expands their meaning through new, globally focused contextualizations. In highlighting the importance of art as both shelter and balm he offers us imaginative refuge in today’s world.”—Kellie Jones, author of, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

""In Art as Sanctuary, Michael Harris revisits a selection of significant works by African American artists and reframes them in ways that expands their meaning through new, globally focused contextualizations. In highlighting the importance of art as both shelter and balm he offers us imaginative refuge in today's world.""--Kellie Jones, author of, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

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Michael D. Harris (1948–2022) was an artist, curator, and scholar and the author of Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation. Dianne M. Stewart is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University. Theophus H. Smith is Emeritus Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University. Richard J. Powell is John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University and editor of Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, also published by Duke University Press.

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