Black Africa and the Us Art World in the Early 20th Century - Aesthetics, White Supremacy

This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939.

List of contents

1.The Enlightenment and White Supremacy; 2.Objects, Sensation, Truth; 3.Black African Aesthetics; 4.Appropriating Black Africa; 5.Black African Art?; 6.Collecting Black Africa, Exhibiting White Supremacy; 7.Ancestral Contact: Victorian Phantasmagoria, Artists, and Black Africa; 8.Diasporic Nostalgia: The Harlem Renaissance and Black African Objects; 9.Blackness after the Renaissance; 10.Twenty-First-Century Colonialism      

                                                                                                           

About the author

The author is an independent interdisciplinary scholar of philosophy, race, history, sociology, and culture.

Summary

This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939.

Product details

• Authors: P A Mullins, P. A. Mullins, Pamela A Mullins, Pamela A. Mullins
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781839989360
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-936-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Anthem Africology Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / African, Philosophy: aesthetics, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, HISTORY / African American & Black, Cultural and media studies, Black Panther; Western scholarship and ideology