THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART

Foreword [Josef Helfenstein and Kristina Van Dyke]
Preface to The Image of the Black in Western Art [David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]
Editor’s Introduction [David Bindman]
Acknowledgments
Introduction [David Bindman, with contributions from Bruce Boucher and Helen Weston]
1. The Theater of Court and Church: Blacks as Figures of Fantasy [David Bindman, Bruce Boucher, and Helen Weston]
2. Between Court and City: Fantasies in Transition [David Bindman, Bruce Boucher, and Helen Weston]
3. Court and City: Fantasies of Domination [David Bindman and Helen Weston]
4. The City Between Fantasy and Reality [David Bindman, Paul Kaplan, and Helen Weston]
5. Africa and the Slave Trade [David Bindman, Charles Ford, and Helen Weston]
6. The Slave Colonies [Charles Ford, Thomas Cummins, Rosalie Smith McCrea, and Helen Weston]
Notes
Illustrations
Index

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