The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2017
The Belknap Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-50439-4 (ISBN)

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The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world—Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions represented are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions.

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt—positioned properly as part of African history—this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization.

This volume complements the vision of art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil who, during the 1960s, founded an image archive to collect the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. A half‐century later, Harvard University Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research completed the historic publication of The Image of the Black in Western Art—ten books in total—beginning with Egyptian antiquities and concluding with images that span the twentieth century. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art reinvigorates the de Menil family’s original mission and reorients the study of the black body with a new focus on Africa and Asia.

David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London. Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2017
Co-Autor	Kristina Van Dyke
Mitarbeit	Stellvertretende Herausgeber: Karen C. C. Dalton
Zusatzinfo	263 color illustrations
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	248 x 279 mm
Gewicht	2722 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-674-50439-9 / 0674504399
ISBN-13	978-0-674-50439-4 / 9780674504394
Zustand	Neuware