The art of exclusion : representing blacks in the nineteenth century

Author

Boime, Albert

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill. (some col.); bibliogr.; index ; xvi, 256 p., [8] p. of pl. ; 1990

ISBN

0874742544

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Images whose content and formal qualities were regulated by the dialectical tension between slavery and its abolition. Argues that these examples of visual culture tell us much about how both the oppressors and the oppressed struggled for recognition, power and control over their lives.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Art
• 1800-1900
• Representation
• Blacks
• Ideology
• Society
• Slavery
• Racism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Art
• 1800-1900
• Représentation
• Noirs
• Idéologie
• Société
• Esclavage
• Racisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00456553

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