The Image of the Black in Western Art

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The Image of the Black in Western Art by Bindman, David; Gates, Henry Louis; Dalton, Karen C. C., 9780674052635
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  • ISBN: 9780674052635 | 0674052633
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 11/14/2011

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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#x19;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. The Eighteenth Century features a particularly rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery#x19;s apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were established.
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