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• Author/Creator:Jean-Louis, Fabiola, artist.
  
• Title:Rewriting history.
  
• Production:[New York], [2020-2021]
  
• Physical Description:14 linear feet (4 boxes)
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 244
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Title supplied by the creator.
  Place of creation supplied by cataloger.
  Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
  Signed and numbered on verso by photographer.
  Prints have images 79 x 61 cm on sheets 84 x 67 cm in window mats 102 x 77 cm.
  Three prints in corresponding window mats housed in each box with interleavng boards with affixed Mylar sheets between each mat.
  Inscriptions in English.
  Purchased from Fabiola Jean-Louis on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2021.
  
• Organization:Arranged alphabetically by image title.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Fabiola Jean-Louis (born 1978) is a Haitian born artist raised in Brooklyn, New York City.
  
• Summary:Twelve ink jet prints of color photographs created by Fabiola Jean-Louis in 2020 for her project, "Rewriting History," and printed in 2021. The images consist of discrete portraits of women and a girl with African heritage wearing paper gowns fashioned as silk and taffeta and often holding similarly constructed objects, imcluding a violin, as well as surrounded by symbols of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century luxury. Jean-Louis embellished the clothing and objects as well as the backgrounds of the portraits with symbols and images of the African American experience in the United States including flagellation, lynching, rape, and slavery.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Fabiola Jean-Louis, Rewriting History. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Jean-Louis, Fabiola.
  African American women--Portraits.
  Flagellation--Pictorial works.
  Girls--Portraits.
  Lynching--Pictorial works.
  Rape--Pictorial works.
  Slavery--Pictorial works.
  Women--Portraits.
  Women, Black--Portraits.
  
• Genre/Form:Inkjet prints.
  Photographs.