Ornamental blackness : the black figure in European decorative arts /
"This revelatory look at European decorative arts addresses the long-ignored implications of the depiction of Black bodies on luxury objects from the Baroque period through the nineteenth century. Adrienne L. Childs traces the complex history of the vogue for representing the Black body as an o...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: finding ornamental blackness
- The French Court and beyond
- A Blackamoor's progress
- The vanquished
- Jewels, porcelain, and silver: Black bodies and eighteenth-century splendor
- Blackness, luxury arts, and industry in the sumptuous nineteenth century
- The Moors of Venice