Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today /

"This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift tow...

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Author / Contributor: Murrell, Denise (Author)
Imprint: New Haven : New York : Yale University Press ; in association with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, [2018]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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