In this article, I argue that … contemporary artists have responded to the Blake-Stedman engravings in ways that simultaneously keep in view the designs’ historical context and circumstances of production and seek to dislocate them creatively from their original conception by reappropriating, remediating, and recontextualizing the images to model possibilities for ongoing emancipation and social change. In the process, they raise crucial questions about the politics of visual representation and especially the reproduction of or creative response to historical artworks representing slavery and colonial violence. I close with a discussion of these broader concepts.
