The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I

From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-674-05271-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 258 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 2240 g

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector’s items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones.

The new edition of From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire offers a comprehensive look at the fascinating and controversial subject of the representation of black people in the ancient world. Classic essays by distinguished scholars are aptly contextualized by Jeremy Tanner’s new introduction, which guides the reader through enormous changes in the field in the wake of the “Black Athena” story.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bindman, David

Gates, Henry Louis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dalton, Karen C. C.

Tanner, Jeremy

Vercoutter, Jean

Leclant, Jean

Snowden, Frank M.

Desanges, Jehan

de Menil, Dominique

Bugner, Ladislas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Bindman, David
David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London.

Gates, Henry Louis
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include <i>Stony the Road</i> and <i>The Black Church</i>. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Snowden, Frank M.
Frank M. Snowden, Jr., was Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Howard University.