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Representing the Black female subject in western art

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Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
248

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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, N8232, N7630 .N45 2010eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23994262M
ISBN 13
9780415871167
LCCN
2009050487
OCLC/WorldCat
649833009, 495995806

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