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Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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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 period. This collection
marks a phase in the scholarship on images of blacks that moves
beyond undifferentiated binaries like 'negative' and 'positive'
that fail to reveal complexities, contradictions, and ambiguities.
Essays that cover the late eighteenth through the early twentieth
century explore the visuality of blackness in anti-slavery imagery,
black women in Orientalist art, race and beauty in fin-de-siecle
photography, the French brand of blackface minstrelsy, and a set of
little-known images of an African model by Edvard Munch. In spite
of the difficulty of resurrecting black lives in nineteenth-century
Europe, one essay chronicles the rare instance of an American
artist of color in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. With analyses of
works ranging from Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, to portraits of
the American actor Ira Aldridge, this volume provides new
interpretations of nineteenth-century representations of blacks.
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