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Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an
understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in
mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. The
term 'Latinize' is introduced to connect France's early
19th-century endeavors to create "Latin America," an expansion of
the French empire into the Latin-language based Spanish and
Portuguese Americas, to its perception of this population.
Latin-American elites traveler to Paris in the 1840s from their
newly independent nations were denigrated in representations rather
than depicted as equals in a developing global economy. Darkened
skin, etched onto images of Latin Americans of European descent
mitigated their ability to claim the privileges of their ancestral
heritage. Whitened skin, among other codes, imposed on
turn-of-the-20th-century Black Latin Americans in Paris tempered
their Blackness and rendered them relatively assimilatable compared
to colonial Africans, Blacks from the Caribbean, and African
Americans. After identifying mid-to-late 19th-century Latinizing
codes, the study focuses on shifts in latinizing visuality between
1890-1933 in three case studies: the depictions of popular Cuban
circus entertainer Chocolat; representations of Panamanian World
Bantamweight Champion boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown; and paintings of
Black Uruguayans executed by Pedro Figari, a Uruguayan artist,
during his residence in Paris between 1925-1933.
The fundamentals of figure drawing--anatomy and perspective --
seldom receive a thorough treatment within the same book. This
volume, written by an experienced teacher, covers both aspects and
provides a basic understanding of how to convey the structure and
functions of the human figure. Oliver discusses and illustrates the
principles involved in figure drawing -- including its
representation by such simple forms as the cube, the cylinder, and
the sphere-- as well as anatomical features, from the trunk and
limbs to the head and facial features.
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