Blacks and blackness in European art of the long nineteenth century

Blacks and blackness in European art of the long nineteenth century /

With analyses of works ranging from Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, to portraits of the American actor Ira Eldridge and to images of blackface minstrelsy, this volume provides much needed new interpretations of 19th-century representations of Blacks.

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Online Access: Digital bookplate
Other authors / contributors: Childs, Adrienne L. (Editor), Libby, Susan Houghton (Editor)
Imprint: Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Black people in art.
Art, European > 19th century.
Art, European.
1800-1899
Acquisition Notes:Henry Clifford Memorial Fund
Table of 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.

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