Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt positioned properly as part of African history this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization.

About the author

David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London.Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.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.

Summary

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world—Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions represented are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions.

Product details

• Authors: David Bindman, David (Durning-Lawrence Professor of the Bindman, David (Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art Bindman, David Blier Bindman
• Assisted by: David Bindman (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor), Blier Suzanne Preston (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor), Dalton Karen C. C. (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780674504394
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50439-4
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, ART / African, ART / Asian / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Black & Asian Studies