A history of the representation of African people & people of African descent in Classical & Western art, these new editions update the magisterial project begun by Dominique de Menil.
Image of the Black in Western Art
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery,"...
The Image of the Black in Western Art
Earlier volumes of Honour's monumental study are cited in BCL3 .
Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent serves his historic term in office, her mission has been re-invigorated through the collaboration of Harvard University Press and the W.E.B. Du Bois ...
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.
Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the essays in this volume further the investigation of constructions of blackness during this ...
This volume traces the history of painting from medieval times to modern times with a focus on each era and its major artists.
From the Early Christian Era to the "age of Discovery": Devisse, J. From the demonic threat to the incarnation of...
2 Schutz ( 1970 ) , pp . 111-22 . Cf. Berger and Luckmann ( 1971 ) . 3 Gilman ( 1985 ) , p . 16. I am indebted to Guus Meijer for alerting me to this general aspect of stereotyping and to the observations of Schutz and Gilman .