Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century

Herausgeber: Childs, AdrienneL.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection marks a phase in the scholarship on images of blacks that moves beyond undifferentiated binaries like â negativeâ and â positiveâ that fail to reveal complexities, contradictions, and ambiguities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 243mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781138310315
• ISBN-10: 113831031X
• Artikelnr.: 60016500

Autorenporträt

Adrienne L. Childs, PhD 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 American art. Susan H. Libby, PhD 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: figuring blackness in Europe, Adrienne L. Childs
and Susan H. Libby; The color of Frenchness: racial identity and visuality
in French anti-slavery imagery, 1788-94, Susan H. Libby; US and THEM:
Camper's odious ligne faciale and Géricault's beseeching black, Albert
Alhadeff; 'A mulatto sculptor from New Orleans': Eugène Warburg in Europe,
1853-59, Paul H.D. Kaplan; Ira Aldridge as Othello in James Northcote's
Manchester portrait, Earnestine Jenkins; Exceeding blackness: African women
in the art of Jean-Léon Gérÿme, Adrienne L. Childs; Visualizing racial
antics in late 19th-century France, James Smalls; Staging ethnicity: Edvard
Munch's images of Sultan Abdul Karim, Allison W. Chang; Race and beauty in
black and white: Robert Demachy and the aestheticization of blackness in
pictorialist photography, Wendy A. Grossman; Selected bibliography; Index.