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work_dwbce4xknbd67n42askpdnnpym	L. M. Hill	The Visual Art of Invisible Man: Ellison's Portrait of Blackness	2009	30	.pdf	application/pdf	11820	672	54	Although Ellison's hands-on work with Barthé was brief,6 he remained involved in the visual arts scene. "Romie," Ellison discovered a peer equally devoted to creating a multifaceted picture of African American existence. an effort to create "in words, a portrait of a human being" and to combat the derogatory images prevalent in American visual art forms.15 African American identity as static reality and instead seeks "plastic essences." Indeed, the term "invisible" is itself calculated to challenge narrowly conceived images of black humanity. producing positive images of African American life.22 Ellison's attention to portraits and visual artifact collections reveals his awareness of Invisible Man unable to fathom the kind of artistic value Ellison later "public, reproducible image" allowed African Americans "to reconstruct" their public faces and, to a large extent, set the stage for Washington's New Negro project.27 Ellison's presentation of Douglass as a Ellison's and Bearden's work in "Visuality and Black Masculinity in Ralph 	./cache/work_dwbce4xknbd67n42askpdnnpym.pdf	./txt/work_dwbce4xknbd67n42askpdnnpym.txt