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Representing the Black female subject in western art [electronic resource] / by Charmaine A. Nelson.

By: Nelson, Charmaine.
Series: Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora: 2.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 245 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780203851241 (ebk : PDF).Subject(s): Women, Black, in art | Race in artGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification: 704.942408996 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Through an-other's eyes : white Canadian artists - Black female subjects -- Racing childhood : representations of black girls in Canadian art -- Slavery, portraiture, and the colonial limits of Canadian art history -- The fruits of resistance : reading portrait of a Negro slave on the sly -- Tying the knot : Black female slave dress in Canada -- Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy -- The "hottentot venus" in Canada : modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality -- White marble, Black bodies, and the fear of the invisible Negro : -- Signifying blackness in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture -- Vâenus Africaine : race, beauty, and African-ness -- Allegory, race, and the four continents : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere câeleste -- Conclusion : whiteness as collective narcissism, towards a new vision.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Through an-other's eyes : white Canadian artists - Black female subjects -- Racing childhood : representations of black girls in Canadian art -- Slavery, portraiture, and the colonial limits of Canadian art history -- The fruits of resistance : reading portrait of a Negro slave on the sly -- Tying the knot : Black female slave dress in Canada -- Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy -- The "hottentot venus" in Canada : modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality -- White marble, Black bodies, and the fear of the invisible Negro : -- Signifying blackness in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture -- Vâenus Africaine : race, beauty, and African-ness -- Allegory, race, and the four continents : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere câeleste -- Conclusion : whiteness as collective narcissism, towards a new vision.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.