The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the
first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people
of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve
million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas during the
transatlantic slave trade. This second volume explores the period
from the final abolition of slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the
nineteenth century through the independence of the Caribbean
islands to the present day. The images and essays here reveal the
damaging legacy of colonialism and slavery and the vigorous efforts
of Afrodescendant artists to assert their identity in the face of
prejudice and denial. These volumes complement the vision of
Dominique and Jean de Menil, art patrons who, during the 1960s,
founded an archive to collect images depicting the myriad ways that
people of African descent have been represented in Western art from
the ancient world to modern times. The Image of the Black in Latin
American and Caribbean Art continues the de Menil family’s
original mission and brings to the fore a renewed focus on a rich
and understudied area.
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