The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art

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The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas during the transatlantic slave... Read More

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The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in the region. This second volume explores the period from the final abolition of slavery in Brazil and Cuba through the independence of the Caribbean islands to the present day.

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The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade.

This second volume explores the period from the final abolition of slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the nineteenth century through the independence of the Caribbean islands to the present day. The images and essays here reveal the damaging legacy of colonialism and slavery and the vigorous efforts of Afrodescendant artists to assert their identity in the face of prejudice and denial.

These volumes complement the vision of Dominique and Jean de Menil, art patrons who, during the 1960s, founded an archive to collect images depicting the myriad ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art continues the de Menil family's original mission and brings to the fore a renewed focus on a rich and understudied area.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674248878

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: 28 photos, 281 color photos, 2 illus., 2 color maps

Contributors:

Edited by David Bindman
Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Associate editor Sheldon Cheek

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 46.0mm

Width: 248.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 3062g

Pages: 592

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London. Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, and Professor of African and African American Studies and History, at Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.