Fictions of Emancipation
Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered
ISBN: PB: 9781588397447,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2022
176 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 40 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
176 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 40 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
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.
This critical r...
PB:
20.00 GBP
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