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Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art.
Analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented in Western art, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized western representation have been. This book poses critical questions about the contexts of production and the p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: From Girls to Women: Locating Black Female Subjects in Western Art; 1 Through An-Other's Eyes: White Canadian ArtistsBlack Female Subjects; 2 Racing Childhood: Representations of Black Girls in Canadian Art; Part II: Slavery and Portraiture: Agency, Resistance and Art as Colonial Discourse; 3 Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art History; 4 The Fruits of Resistance: Reading Portrait of a Negro Slave on the Sly; 5 Tying the Knot: Black Female Slave Dress in Canada.
- Part III: The Nude and the Naked: Black Women, White Ideals and the Racialization of Sexuality6 Coloured Nude: Fetishization, Disguise, Dichotomy; 7 The "Hottentot Venus" in Canada: Modernism, Censorship and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality; Part IV: From White Marble to Coloured Stone: Aesthetics, Materiality and Degrees of Blackness; 8 White Marble, Black Bodies and the Fear of the Invisible Negro: Signifying Blackness in M.