Fictions of emancipation: carpeaux's why born enslaved! reconsidered
Éditeur :
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN :
9781588397447
Date de publication :
29 mars 2022
Dimensions :
22,9 x 17,8 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty