Race experts : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's (start italics) Races of mankind (end italics) /

"In 'Race Experts' Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the 'Races of Mankind' series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Iva...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kim, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Hoffman, Malvina, > 1885-1966. > Races of mankind.
Hoffman, Malvina, > 1885-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hoffman, Malvina, > 1887-1966.
1900-1999
Figure sculpture, American > 20th century.
Ethnology in art.
Art and anthropology > United States > History > 20th century.
Art and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Sculpture de figures humaines américaine > 20e siècle.
Ethnologie dans l'art.
Art et anthropologie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Art et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ART > Sculpture & Installation.
Art and anthropology.
Art and society.
Figure sculpture, American.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Racial know-how : expertise versus common sense
  • Mediations : art in the natural history museum
  • Racial portraiture : between typologies and commonsense
  • Racial homelands : popular geography and local races
  • Micro-expertise : passing for Indian, passing for white.

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