Black womanhood : images, icons, and ideologies of the African body /
"Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon - the black female body - and contemporar...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hanover, N.H. :
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Internet Archive Lending Library
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| Summary: | "Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon - the black female body - and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal Mammies." "This book presents icons of the black female body as seen from three separate but intersecting perspectives: the traditional African, the colonial, and the contemporary global. The display and contemplation of such iconic images addresses complex and often competing forces of self-presentation and the representation of others. Peeling back layers of social, cultural, and political realities, Black Womanhood explores how historic icons inform contemporary artistic responses to the black female body through an examination of themes such as beauty, fertility and sexuality, maternity, and women's roles and power in society."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Issued in connection with an exhibition held Mar. 8-Sept. 7, 2008, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and at later dates, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California. |
| Physical Description: | 374 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780295987705 0295987707 9780295987712 (pbk.) 0295987715 (pbk.) |