MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01640cam a22002538a 4500
001 2009050487
003 DLC
005 20100910115414.0
008 091218s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009050487
020 $a9780415871167
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aN7630$b.N45 2010
082 00 $a704.9/42408996$222
100 1 $aNelson, Charmaine.
245 10 $aRepresenting the Black female subject in western art /$cby Charmaine A. Nelson.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2010.
263 $a1005
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aRoutledge studies on African and Black diaspora ;$v2
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThrough 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.
650 0 $aWomen, Black, in art.
650 0 $aRace in art.