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Blacks and blackness in European art of the long nineteenth century / edited by Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby

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Editor:
Childs, Adrienne L.  Search this
Libby, Susan Houghton  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2014
19th century
Contents:
Introduction : figuring blackness in Europe / Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby -- The color of Frenchness : racial identity and visuality in French anti-slavery imagery, 1788-94 / Susan H. Libby -- Us and them : Camper's Odious ligne faciale and Géricault's Beseeching black / Albert Alhadeff -- 'A mulatto sculptor from New Orleans' : Eugène Warburg in Europe, 1853-59 / Paul H.D. Kaplan -- Ira Aldridge as Othello in James Northcote's Manchester portrait / Ernestine Jenkins -- Exceeding blackness : African women in the art of Jean-Léon Gérôme / Adrienne L. Childs -- Visualizing racial antics in late nineteenth-century France / James Smalls -- Staging ethnicity : Edvard Munch's images of Sultan Abdul Karim / Allison W. Chang -- Race and beauty in black and white : Robert Demachy and the aestheticization of blackness in pictorialist photography / Wendy A. Grossman
Topic:
Blacks in art  Search this
Art, European  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1040342