Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III - From Age of Discovery to Age of Abolition, Part 3: The Eighteenth

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 "The Eighteenth Century" features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery's apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were established. Zusammenfassung The Eighteenth Century features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery’s apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were established.

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• Authors: David Bindman, David (EDT)/ Gates Bindman, David Gates Bindman, Jean Michel Massing
• 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: 14.11.2011
• EAN: 9780674052635
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05263-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Image of the Black in Western; The Image of the Black in Western Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Human figures depicted in art, C 1700 To C 1800