The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV

From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and White Myths
2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-674-05260-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 258 mm x 293 mm, Gewicht: 2352 g

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector’s items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones.

Black Models and White Myths examines the tendentious racial assumptions behind representations of Africans that emphasized the contrast between “civilization” and “savagery” and the development of so-called scientific and ethnographic racism. These works often depicted Africans within a context of sexuality and exoticism, representing their allegedly natural behavior as a counterpoint to inhibited European conduct.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bindman, David

Gates, Henry Louis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dalton, Karen C. C.

Honour, Hugh

Stoichita, Victor

Kaplan, Paul H. D.

Bugner, Ladislas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Bindman, David
David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London.

Gates, Henry Louis
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include <i>Stony the Road</i> and <i>The Black Church</i>. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.