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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]

Summary note

Nelson analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented in Western art, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized Western representation have been. She poses questions about the concepts of production, the consequences of comsumption and more.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

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

RCP

H - S

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