The image of the Black in western art / David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor.

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Image of the Black in Western art | The Image of the black in western artPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : In collaboration with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research ; [Houston, Tex.] : Menil Collection, 2010-Edition: New ed., IV part 2Description: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674052604

Subject(s):

Blacks in art

DDC classification:

704.9493 BIN

LOC classification:

N8232 .I46 2010

Contents:

Summary: In The 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called The Image of the Black in Western Art. Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent serves his historic term in office, her mission has been re-invigorated through the collaboration of Harvard University Press and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research to present new editions of the coveted five original books and the anticipated new volumes which shall complete the series. The completed set will include ten sumptuous books in five volumes with up-to-date introductions and more full-color illustrations, printed on high-quality art stock for books that will last a lifetime.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	704.9493 BIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100632315

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 4. pt. 2. From the American Revolution to World War I : Black models and White myths. -- Studies / Hugh Honour -- The art of observation / Hugh Honour -- The seductions of slavery / Hugh Honour -- The new Negro / Hugh Honour -- Goya's Blacks / Victor Stoichita -- Karl Briullov and the Russian representation of Black Africans in the age of Pushkin / Paul H.D. Kaplan

In The 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called The Image of the Black in Western Art. Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent serves his historic term in office, her mission has been re-invigorated through the collaboration of Harvard University Press and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research to present new editions of the coveted five original books and the anticipated new volumes which shall complete the series. The completed set will include ten sumptuous books in five volumes with up-to-date introductions and more full-color illustrations, printed on high-quality art stock for books that will last a lifetime.