Representing the Black female subject in western art

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Charmaine Nelson, Charmaine Ne ...
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Representing the Black female subject in western art

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Routledge
Language
English

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Table of Contents

Through an-other's eyes : white Canadian artists - Black female subjects
Racing childhood : representations of black girls in Canadian art
Slavery, portraiture, and the colonial limits of Canadian art history
The fruits of resistance : reading portrait of a Negro slave on the sly
Tying the knot : Black female slave dress in Canada
Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy
The "hottentot venus" in Canada : modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality
White marble, Black bodies, and the fear of the invisible Negro :
Signifying blackness in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture
Vénus Africaine : race, beauty, and African-ness
Allegory, race, and the four continents : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste
Conclusion : whiteness as collective narcissism, towards a new vision.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, NY
Series
Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora -- 2

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
704.9/42408996
Library of Congress
N7630 .N45 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24490367M
ISBN 13
9780415871167
LCCN
2009050487

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