Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies - Confrontations and Contradictions

This book examines Théodore Géricault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa.

List of contents

Introduction: Géricault Painting Black Bodies
1 Black Bodies
2 Prurient Bonds
3 Editing and Emendations
4 Parity
5 Fabricating Blacks
6 Deference and Decorum
7 Empathy
8 Quotidian Portraits
9 Epilogue

About the author

Albert Alhadeff is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Summary

This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa.

Product details

• Authors: Albert Alhadeff, Albert (University of Colorado Alhadeff, Alhadeff Albert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032400204
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240020-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; ART / Techniques / General, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), ART / Techniques / Painting, ART / Performance, ART / Techniques / Watercolor Painting, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, Portraits in art, Portraits and self-portraiture in art, ART / History / European / Romanticism