The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-674-24886-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 298 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 2158 g

The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade. This first volume spans four centuries, from the first Spanish occupation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fifteenth century; through the establishment of slave colonies on the mainland and islands by the British, French, and Danish; to the revolutionary emergence of independence, first in Haiti in 1804, and then across Latin America. Essays by leading scholars and superb illustrations bring to light a remarkable range of imagery that provides vivid insights into the complex racial history of the period.

The two volumes complement the vision of Dominique and Jean de Menil, art patrons who, during the 1960s, founded an archive to collect images depicting the myriad ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art continues the de Menil family’s original mission and brings to the fore a renewed focus on a rich and understudied area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De La Fuente, Alejandro

Bindman, David

Gates, Henry Louis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cheek, Sheldon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Über Autor(innen)

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.

De La Fuente, Alejandro
Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, and Professor of African and African American Studies and History, at Harvard University.

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