Representing the Black female subject in western art /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Series: | Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora ;
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Table of 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.