Races of mankind
Subtitle: the sculptures of Malvina Hoffman
By: Marianne Kinkel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780252036248
Subjects: Exhibitions; Field Museum of Natural History. Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall; Women sculptors; Ethnicity in art; American Bronze sculpture; Race in art; Ethnological museums and collections; Race; Ethnological collections; Field Museum of Natural History; Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.); Ethnic groups; Biography
Description: "In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology display called the Races of Mankind. In this exceptional study, Marianne Kinkel measures the colossal impact of the ninety-one bronze and stone sculptures on perceptions of race in twentieth-century visual culture, tracing their exhibition from their 1933 debut and nearly four decades at the Field Museum to numerous reuses, repackagings, reproductions, and publications that reached across the world"--Front flap of book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Initial plans for a physical anthropology display; title: Malvina Hoffman as professional artist; title: Producing the sculptures and building consensus; title: The Hall of the Races of Mankind; title: Life beyond the Field Museum : exhibiting statuettes during the 1930s; title: Deploying the Races of mankind figures during the 1940s; title: Conclusion : retraction and redeployment of the sculptures in Chicago.