Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth CenturyAdrienneL. Childs Routledge, 5 lug 2017 - 264 pagine Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the essays in this volume further the investigation of constructions of blackness during this period. This collection marks a phase in the scholarship on images of blacks that moves beyond undifferentiated binaries like ?negative? and ?positive? that fail to reveal complexities, contradictions, and ambiguities. Essays that cover the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century explore the visuality of blackness in anti-slavery imagery, black women in Orientalist art, race and beauty in fin-de-si?e photography, the French brand of blackface minstrelsy, and a set of little-known images of an African model by Edvard Munch. In spite of the difficulty of resurrecting black lives in nineteenth-century Europe, one essay chronicles the rare instance of an American artist of color in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. With analyses of works ranging from G?cault's Raft of the Medusa, to portraits of the American actor Ira Aldridge, this volume provides new interpretations of nineteenth-century representations of blacks. |
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figuring blackness in Europe | 1 |
racial identity and visuality in French antislavery imagery 178894 | 19 |
Campers odious ligne faciale and Géricaults beseeching black | 47 |
Eugène Warburg in Europe 185359 | 69 |
5 Ira Aldridge as Othello in James Northcotes Manchester portrait | 105 |
African women in the art of JeanLéon Gérôme | 125 |
7 Visualizing racial antics in late nineteenthcentury France | 145 |
Edvard Munchs images of Sultan Abdul Karim | 175 |
Robert Demachy and the aestheticization of blackness in Pictorialist photography | 201 |
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Plates | 241 |
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