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The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
David Bindman
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Description for The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
Hardcover. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions represented are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. Editor(s): Blier, Suzanne Preston; Gates Jr., Henry Louis. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt--positioned properly as part of African history--this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, ... Read more
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt--positioned properly as part of African history--this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674504394
SKU
V9780674504394
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About David Bindman
David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London. Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins ... Read more
Reviews for The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
Examines the way the black man and woman have been portrayed outside of the West, beginning with ancient Egypt
positioned properly as part of African history
and moving through modern photography from Mali. It examines the representation of Africans outside the continent, in Indian miniatures and Japanese prints, showing a very different depiction of race outside the stereotypes of the Western gaze.
... Read more
positioned properly as part of African history
and moving through modern photography from Mali. It examines the representation of Africans outside the continent, in Indian miniatures and Japanese prints, showing a very different depiction of race outside the stereotypes of the Western gaze.
... Read more