Representing the Black female subject in western art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Charmaine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora ; 2.
Subjects:
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.