Representing the Black female subject in western art
By: by Charmaine A. Nelson.
Series: Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415871167
Subjects: Women, Black, in art; Race in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Through an-other's eyes : white Canadian artists - Black female subjects; title: Racing childhood : representations of black girls in Canadian art; title: Slavery, portraiture, and the colonial limits of Canadian art history; title: The fruits of resistance : reading portrait of a Negro slave on the sly; title: Tying the knot : Black female slave dress in Canada; title: Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy; title: The "hottentot venus" in Canada : modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality; title: White marble, Black bodies, and the fear of the invisible Negro :; title: Signifying blackness in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture; title: Vénus Africaine : race, beauty, and African-ness; title: Allegory, race, and the four continents : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste; title: Conclusion : whiteness as collective narcissism, towards a new vision.