Research Catalog

Title

The image of the Black in African and Asian art / David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : In collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bindman, David, 1940-
• Blier, Suzanne Preston
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
• Dalton, Karen C. C., 1948-
• Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

Description

x, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 29 cm

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.--

Subjects

• Blacks in art
• Art, Asian
• Body image in art
• Art, Black
• Art and race
• Art, African

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc+ F 17-135

ISBN

• 9780674504394
• 0674504399

LCCN

2016013277

OCLC

946075993

Title

The image of the Black in African and Asian art / David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : In collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

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.

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 17-135