Race Experts
Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind
Seiten
2018
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0185-0 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0185-0 (ISBN)
A compelling examination of Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind. Comprised of 104 life-size bronzes, the Races of Mankind was the largest exhibit on race installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist.
Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. Nonetheless, the Field Museum commissioned her to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum’s new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist.
Hoffman’s Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and lay ideas about race in interwar America. Kim explores how the exhibition compelled the artist to incorporate into her artistic model of race not only racial science but also popular ideas that ordinary Americans brought to the museum. Kim situates the Races of Mankind exhibit at the juncture of these different forms of expertise and examines how the sculptures represented the messy resolutions between them.
Race Experts is a compelling story of ideological contradiction and accommodation within the racial practices of American museums, artists, and audiences.
Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. Nonetheless, the Field Museum commissioned her to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum’s new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist.
Hoffman’s Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and lay ideas about race in interwar America. Kim explores how the exhibition compelled the artist to incorporate into her artistic model of race not only racial science but also popular ideas that ordinary Americans brought to the museum. Kim situates the Races of Mankind exhibit at the juncture of these different forms of expertise and examines how the sculptures represented the messy resolutions between them.
Race Experts is a compelling story of ideological contradiction and accommodation within the racial practices of American museums, artists, and audiences.
Linda Kim is an associate professor of American and modern art history at Drexel University.
List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. Racial Know-How: Expertise versus Common Sense
Chapter Two. Mediations: Art in the Natural History Museum
Chapter Three. Racial Portraiture: Between Typologies and Common Sense
Chapter Four. Racial Homelands: Popular Geography and Local Races
Chapter Five. Micro-Expertise: Passing for Indian, Passing for White
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | 86 illustrations, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-0185-X / 149620185X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-0185-0 / 9781496201850 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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