Research Catalog

Title

Théodore Géricault, painting Black bodies : confrontations and contradictions / Albert Alhadeff.

Author

Alhadeff, Albert

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
• ©2020

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Holdings

Details

Description

xiii, 220 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.

Summary

"This book examines Théodore Géricault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault's depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly Géricault's own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged--alongside a growing number of abolitionists--overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race & ethnic studies and 19th century modern art"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in art and race

Uniform Title

Routledge research in art and race

Subject

• Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824 > Criticism and interpretation
• Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824
• Géricault, Théodore 1791-1824
• Black people in art
• Slavery in art
• Schwarze
• Schwarze Motiv
• Sklaverei Motiv

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780367313333
• 0367313332
• 9780429316333 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000036992 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000036893 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000036947 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019050058

OCLC

• on1125267207
• SCSB-9766039

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library