THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART

Preface to The Image of the Black in Western Art [David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]
Acknowledgments to the New Edition [David Bindman, Karen C.C. Dalton, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]
Introduction to the New Edition [David Bindman]
1. Studies [Hugh Honour]
2. The Art of Observation [Hugh Honour]
3. The Seductions of Slavery [Hugh Honour]
4. The New Negro [Hugh Honour]
5. Goya’s Blacks [Victor Stoichita]
6. Karl Briullov and the Russian Representation of Black Africans in the Age of Pushkin [Paul H. D. Kaplan]
Appendix
- Acknowledgments to the First Edition [Ladislas Bugner]
- Introduction to the First Edition [Hugh Honour]
Abbreviations
Notes
Illustrations
Index

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