Fictions of Emancipation - Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered

This critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Elyse Nelson is assistant curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European sculpture in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wendy S. Walters is concentration head in nonfiction and associate professor in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York.

Zusammenfassung

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elyse Nelson, Wendy Walters, Wendy S. Walters
• Mitarbeit: Elyse Nelson (Herausgeber), Wendy Walters (Herausgeber), Wendy S. Walters (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781588397447
• ISBN: 978-1-58839-744-7
• Seiten: 140
• Abmessung: 178 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 486 g
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte