The image of the black in African and Asian art /

The image of the black in African and Asian art /

The book moves beyond the "West", that is to say Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, to consider the art of Africa and the world to the east, to represent and place in historical context images of people of sub-Saharan African descent. The question remains. What does it mean for an art...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
Other Authors: Bindman, David, 1940- (Editor), Blier, Suzanne Preston (Editor), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Editor), Dalton, Karen C. C., 1948- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, [2017]
Subjects:
Blacks in art.
Art and race.
Art, African.
Art, Asian.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David Bindman
  • Part I. Africa: Images of Africans by and of themselves: historical and comparative factors / Suzanne Blier
  • The body in African art / Kristina Van Dyke
  • Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Picton
  • The image of the Black in early African photography / Christraud Geary
  • The image of the Black in modern and contemporary African art / Steven Nelson
  • Part II. Asia: The image of the Black in Islamic art: the case of painting / Robert Hillenbrand
  • The image of the Black in India / John McLeod and Kenneth X. Robbins
  • The image of the Black in Chinese art / Don J. Wyatt
  • The image of the Black in Japanese art: from the beginnings to 1850 / Timon Screech
  • The image of the Black in Japanese art: 1850 to the present day / Alicia Volk.