Screen LibraryThe image of the Black in African and Asian art /
The book moves beyond the "West", that is to say Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, to consider the art of Africa and the world to the east, to represent and place in historical context images of people of sub-Saharan African descent. The question remains: what does it mean for an art...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : In collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The book moves beyond the "West", that is to say Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, to consider the art of Africa and the world to the east, to represent and place in historical context images of people of sub-Saharan African descent. The question remains: what does it mean for an artist of African descent to make an image of him or herself, or another person of African descent, as opposed to an image of a Black person created by an artist who is not Black? This vexed question has been at the heart of debates about "identity politics" for a very long time. In other words, in collecting images of Black subjects created by Black artists, whether from Africa or the African diaspora, we are not making epistemological or ontological claims about a work of art's so-called "authenticity," nor of its artistic quality. We simply see these works as their own canon, as another way of organizing viewing and explicating images of the Black subject in art, one related to Euro-American traditions of representation, but simultaneously with an order and history of their own as well, in the same way that a novel, let's say, by Toni Morrison exists simultaneously in the canon of American literature and of African American literature, among other literary traditions.-- |
| Item Description: | "This book is a companion volume to the series The Image of the Black in Western Art, which was completed in five volumes (ten books) between 2010 and 2014, the last volume being on the twentieth century."--Preface. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674504394 0674504399 |
| Index Number: | N8232 |
| CLC: | J05 |
| Call Number: | J05/I313 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Africa: Images of Africans by and of themselves: historical and comparative factors / The body in African art / Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa / The image of the Black in early African photography / The image of the Black in modern and contemporary African art / Asia: The image of the Black in Islamic art: the case of painting / The image of the Black in India / The image of the Black in Chinese art / The image of the Black in Japanese art: from the beginnings to 1850 / The image of the Black in Japanese art: nineteenth century to the present day / |