| Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices Contributor(s): Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen, Jegerstedt, Kari, Svrljuga, Zeljka |
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ISBN: 9004395202 ISBN-13: 9789004395206 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Art | Subjects & Themes - Human Figure - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Series: Cross/Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Zeljka Svrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia. Contributors: Kjersti Aarstein, Carmen Birkle, Jorunn Svensen Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, Ulla Angkj r J rgensen, Ljubica Matek, Margery Vibe Skagen, Camilla Erichsen Skalle, Zeljka Svrljuga. |