The image of the Black in African and Asian art / David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor.
Bindman, David, 1940- editor.; Blier, Suzanne Preston, editor.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor.; Dalton, Karen C. C., 1948- editor.; Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
2017
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Title The image of the Black in African and Asian art / David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor.
ISBN 9780674504394 (hardvcover)
0674504399 (hardvcover)
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : In collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, 2017.
Language English
Description x, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Call Number N8232 .I45 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 704.03/96
Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Bindman, David, 1940- editor.
Blier, Suzanne Preston, editor.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor.
Dalton, Karen C. C., 1948- editor.
Added Corporate Author Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
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Introduction / David Bindman
Part I. Africa: Images of Africans by and of themselves: historical and comparative factors / Suzanne Preston Blier
The body in African art / Kristina Van Dyke
Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Picton
The image of the Black in early African photography / Christraud M. Geary
The image of the Black in modern and contemporary African art / Steven Nelson
Part II. Asia: The image of the Black in Islamic art: the case of painting / Robert Hillenbrand
The image of the Black in India / John McLeod and Kenneth X. Robbins
The image of the Black in Chinese art / Don J. Wyatt
The image of the Black in Japanese art: from the beginnings to 1850 / Timon Screech
The image of the Black in Japanese art: nineteenth century to the present day / Alicia Volk.

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