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Subject(s)

• Women, Black, in art [Browse]
• Race in art [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora ; 2. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora ; 2 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780415871167
• 0415871166
• 9780203851241 (ebk.)
• 0203851242 (ebk.)

LCCN

2009050487

OCLC

495995806

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