| The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa Contributor(s): Bindman, David (Editor), Gates, Henry Louis (Editor), Dalton, Karen C. C. |
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ISBN: 0674052676 ISBN-13: 9780674052673 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $104.94 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Art & Politics |
| Dewey: 704.949 |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 10.02" W x 11.31" (4.41 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by essays written by major scholars, appeared in three large-format volumes, consisting of one or more books, that quickly became collector's items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to have republished five of the original books and to present five completely new ones, extending the series into the twentieth century. The Impact of Africa, the first of two books on the twentieth century, looks at changes in the Western perspective on African art and the representation of Africans, and the paradox of their interpretation as simultaneously "primitive" and "modern." The essays include topics such as the new medium of photography, African influences on Picasso and on Josephine Baker's impression of 1920s Paris, and the influential contribution of artists from the Caribbean and Latin American diasporas. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blier, Suzanne: - Suzanne Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.Edwards, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Edwards is Research Professor in Photographic History and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.Bindman, David: - David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London.Gates, Henry Louis: - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.Grant, Vera Ingrid: - Vera Ingrid Grant is the Founding Director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.Blier, Suzanne Preston: - Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. |