@article{806158,
      author = {Bindman, David, and Blier, Suzanne Preston, and Gates,  Henry Louis, and Dalton, Karen C. C.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/806158},
      title = {The image of the Black in African and Asian art /},
      abstract = {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.--},
      recid = {806158},
      pages = {x, 434 pages :},
}