The image of the Black in African and Asian art

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The image of the Black in African and Asian art

[David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors] ; [Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor]

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, 2017

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Summary: The book moves beyond the "West", that is to say Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, to consider the art of Africa and the world to the east, to represent and place in historical context images of people of sub-Saharan African descent. The question remains: what does it mean for an artist of African descent to make an image of him or herself, or another person of African descent, as opposed to an image of a Black person created by an artist who is not Black? This vexed question has been at the heart of debates about "identity politics" for a very long time. In other words, in collecting images of Black subjects created by Black artists, whether from Africa or the African diaspora, we are not making epistemological or ontological claims about a work of art's so-called "authenticity," nor of its artistic quality. We simply see these works as their own canon, as another way of organizing viewing and explicating images of the Black subject in art, one related to Euro-American traditions of representa

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • Introduction / David Bindman
  • Part I. Africa: Images of Africans by and of themselves: historical and comparative factors / Suzanne Blier
  • The body in African art / Kristina Van Dyke
  • Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Picton
  • The image of the Black in early African photography / Christraud Geary
  • The image of the Black in modern and contemporary African art / Steven Nelson
  • Part II. Asia: The image of the Black in Islamic art: the case of painting / Robert Hillenbrand
  • The image of the Black in India / John McLeod and Kenneth X. Robbins
  • The image of the Black in Chinese art / Don J. Wyatt
  • The image of the Black in Japanese art: from the beginnings to 1850 / Timon Screech
  • The image of the Black in Japanese art: nineteenth century to the present day / Alicia Volk

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The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt-positioned properly as part of African history-this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization. This volume complements the vision of art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil who, during the 1960s, founded an image archive to collect the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research completed the historic publication of The Image of the Black in Western Art-ten books in total-beginning with Egyptian antiquities and concluding with images that span the twentieth century. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art reinvigorates the de Menil family's original mission and reorients the study of the black body with a new focus on Africa and Asia.

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