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
Introduction to the New Edition: Race and Representation in Ancient Art: Black Athena and After [Jeremy Tanner]
1. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt: From the Beginnings to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty [Jean Vercoutter]
2. Cushites and Meroites: Iconography of the African Rulers in the Ancient Upper Nile [Jean Leclant]
3. Iconographical Evidence on the Black Populations in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Frank M. Snowden, Jr.]
4. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient North Africa [Jehan Desanges]
5. Egypt, Land of Africa, in the Greco-Roman World [Jean Leclant]
Appendix
Acknowledgments and Perspectives to the First Edition [Dominique de Menil]
Preface to the First Edition [Ladislas Bugner]
Introduction to the First Edition [Ladislas Bugner]
Abbreviations
Notes
Illustrations
Maps
Index

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