Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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Richard J. Powell closely examines the sensations that arise from the color brown in the paintings of the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and the American artist Nina Chanel Abney. This talk probes a shared passion for brown silhouettes in art that produce a special kind of affect, a psychological frisson, especially in Black audiences.

This is the final talk of the six-part series “Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect,” presented by Richard J. Powell of Duke University for the 71st A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts.

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