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Richard J. Powell

Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett professor of art & art history at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1989. His publications include: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism , Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture , Going There: Black Visual Satire , and Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson.