The Black Figure in the European Imaginary

Herausgeber: Libby, Susan H.; Childs, Adrienne L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies the way in which the visual arts in Europe perceived, or imagined, black people during the long nineteenth-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Giles
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 240mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9781907804496
• ISBN-10: 1907804498
• Artikelnr.: 44799738

Autorenporträt

Susan H. Libby is Professor of art history at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Her research interests are the visual and material culture of French Caribbean slavery. Adrienne L. Childs is an independent scholar and curator. She is an associate of the W.E.B Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her interests are in the relationship between race and representation in European and Ame

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by David Bindman on the theme of representing black figures in
European art
Essays by Childs and Libby with an Introduction defining "imaginary" as a
noun and introducing the theme. This is followed by these sections, with
each curator leading with her area of expertise:
1. Servitude, Race, and the Black Figure (Libby)
2. Portraits , Historical and Romantic (Childs and Libby)
3. The Black Body as Exoticism and Decoration (Childs)
Main catalogue presentation of 40 works
Checklist
Index