Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV - From American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves Liberators

Informationen zum Autor David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church . He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Klappentext Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications of the representation of Africans, from the morality of slavery, through abolitionism, to European imperialism in Africa. Popular imagery and great works, like Turner's Slave Ship, cast light on widely differing European responses to Africans and their descendants. Zusammenfassung Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications of the representation of Africans, from the morality of slavery, through abolitionism, to European imperialism in Africa. Popular imagery and great works, like Turner’s Slave Ship, cast light on widely differing European responses to Africans and their descendants.

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• Authors: David Bindman, David Gates Bindman
• Assisted by: David Bindman (Editor), Karen C. C. Dalton (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Dalton Karen C. C. (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674052598
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05259-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: The Image of the Black in Western Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, History of Art, Art styles not defined by date