Black womanhood : images, icons, and ideologies of the African body

著者

• Thompson, Barbara
• Amadiume, Ifi
• Hood Museum of Art
• Davis Museum and Cultural Center
• San Diego Museum of Art

書誌事項

Black womanhood : images, icons, and ideologies of the African body

edited by Barbara Thompson ; with essays by Ifi Amadiume ... [et al.]

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press, c2008

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Mar. 8-Sept. 7, 2008, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and at later dates, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon--the black female body--and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal Mammies. This book presents icons of the black female body as seen from three separate but intersecting perspectives: the traditional African, the colonial, and the contemporary global. The display and contemplation of such iconic images addresses complex and often competing forces of self-presentation and the representation of others. Peeling back layers of social, cultural, and political realities, Black Womanhood explores how historic icons inform contemporary artistic responses to the black female body through an examination of themes such as beauty, fertility and sexuality, maternity, and women's roles and power in society. More than 200 historical and contemporary images accompany written contributions by artists, curators and scholars. This compelling volume makes a valuable contribution to ongoing discussions of race, gender, and sexuality by promoting a deeper understanding of past and present readings of black womanhood, both in Africa and in the West.

目次

Lenders to the Exhibition Foreword / Brian P. Kennedy Acknowledgments / Barbara Thompson Introduction / Barbara Thompson Part One | Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives 1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson 2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume 3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid Schildkrout Plates Part Two | Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary 4. The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives / Christraud Geary 5. The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Plates Part Three | Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys into Black Womanhood 6. Picturing the New Negro Woman / Deborah Willis 7. The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen / Carla Williams 8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Clixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Backer / Ayo Abietou Coly 9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice / Barbara Thompson Plates Artists Contributors Bibliography Index

「Nielsen BookData」 より

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA87600769
• ISBN:
  • 9780295987705
  • 9780295987712
• LCCN: 2007041938
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Hanover, N.H.
• ページ数/冊数: 374 p.
• 大きさ: 31 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : N8232
  • DC22 : 704.9/42408996
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Women, Black, in art -- Exhibitions