Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III - From Age of Discovery to Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of

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 In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector's items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones. The much-awaited "Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque" has been written by an international team of distinguished scholars, and covers the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The rise of slavery and the presence of black people in Europe irrevocably affected the works of the best artists of the time. Essays on the black Magus and the image of the black in Italy, Spain, and Britain, with detailed studies of Rembrandt and Heliodorus's "Aethiopica," all presented with superb color plates, make this new volume a worthy addition to this classic series. Zusammenfassung Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch! Rembrandt! Rubens! and Hogarth to stunning creations by contemporary black artists.

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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: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780674052611
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05261-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Image of the Black in Western; The Image of the Black in Western Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General