The image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean art / David Bindman, Alejandro de la Fuente, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Sheldon Creek, associate editor.

Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, [2023]
DistributionCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Description2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Subjects
Black people in art.
Art and race.
Art, Latin American.
Art, Caribbean.

Other author/creatorBindman, David, 1940- editor.
Other author/creatorFuente, Alejandro de la, 1963- editor.
Other author/creatorGates, Henry Louis, Jr. editor.
Other author/creatorCreek, Sheldon editor.
Other author/creatorHutchins Center for African and African American Research.
Contents Book 1. From colony to nation -- Book 2. The modern world.
Abstract 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 first volume spans four centuries, from the first Spanish occupation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fifteenth century; through the establishment of slave colonies on the mainland and islands by the British, French, and Danish; to the revolutionary emergence of independence, first in Haiti in 1804, and then across Latin America. Essays by leading scholars and superb illustrations bring to light a remarkable range of imagery that provides vivid insights into the complex racial history of the period. The two 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.
General noteAn extended study of 'The image of the Black in Western Art.'
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9780674248861 hardcover book 1
ISBN0674248864 hardcover book 1
ISBN9780674248878 hardcover book 2
ISBN0674248872 hardcover book 2

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