The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Associate Editor Karen C. C. Dalton

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$95.00 • £76.95 • €85.50

ISBN 9780674504394

Publication Date: 02/27/2017

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456 pages

263 color illustrations

Belknap Press

World

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

Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2017

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