THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART

Cover: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the

Cover: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque

Edited by David Bindman

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Associate Editor Karen C. C. Dalton

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$106.00 • £92.95 • €96.95

ISBN 9780674052611

Publication Date: 11/01/2010

432 pages

191 color illustrations

The Image of the Black in Western Art > Volume III: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition

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David Bindman is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at University College London.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Listen to National Gallery of Art panel discussions featuring Image of the Black series editors David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as well as HUP editor Sharmila Sen: Part I | Part II | Part III
In conjunction with Harvard’s Du Bois Institute, The Root hosted an “Image of the Week” series featuring art from the Image of the Black archive. View the first in the series »
At ARTnews, read about new exhibitions of works depicting Africans and their descendants around the world, and in the New York Times, read about a related surge in scholarship on portrayals of African Americans in fine and popular art
Learn more about the Image of the Black in Western Art project

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