"A pioneering work in the field of art history, The Image of the Black in Western Art is a comprehensive series of ten books which offers a lavishly illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent from antiquity to the present. Each book includes a series of essays by some of the most distinguished names in art history. Ranging from images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands almost 3,500 years ago to the works of the great masters of European and American art such as Bosch, Dürer, Mantegna, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Hogarth, Copley, and Goya to stunning new media creations by contemporary black artists, these books are generously illustrated with beautiful, moving, and often little-known images of black people. Black figures-queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, priests and prisoners, dancers and athletes, children and gods-are central to the visual imagination of Western civilization. Written in accessible language, the extensive and insightful commentaries on the illustrations by distinguished art historians make this series invaluable for the general reader and the specialist alike."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Image of the Black in Western Art
A history of the representation of African people & people of African descent in Classical & Western art, these new editions update the magisterial project begun by Dominique de Menil.
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world--Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Jackson for what she calls “social works” and Lambert-Beatty in her discussion of the “parafictional.”1 It's no accident that both are scholars of performance art. Whether the ideological high theater of the Yes ...
Earlier volumes of Honour's monumental study are cited in BCL3 .
In the process, Arasse freshly lays bare the dazzling power of painting. Fast-paced and full of humor as well as insight, this is a book for anyone who cares about really looking at, seeing, and understanding paintings.
30 f .; An Anatomical Exposition Of The Structure Of The Human Body ( tr . ... See P.J. Weston's The Noble Primitive in English Fiction 1674-1796 ( unpublished Ph.D. diss . , Univ . of Exeter , 1977 ) , pp .
A history of the representation of African people & people of African descent in Classical & Western art, these new editions update the magisterial project begun by Dominique de Menil.
Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the essays in this volume further the investigation of constructions of blackness during this ...