Elyse Nelson, Wendy S. Walters

Fictions of Emancipation

Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical reexamination of Carpeauxâ s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery imagesâ this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781588397447
• ISBN-10: 1588397440
• Artikelnr.: 62392649

Autorenporträt

Elyse Nelson is assistant curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European sculpture in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wendy S. Walters is concentration head in nonfiction and associate professor in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York.