1st Edition

Race-ing Art History Critical Readings in Race and Art History

Edited By Kymberly N. Pinder Copyright 2002
    438 Pages 150 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    438 Pages 150 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing both. Each essay in this collection is a response to this vision, to the distant mirror of looking at the other.

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    List of Color Plates
    Introduction: Kymberly N. Pinder
    I. Black Athenas, Semitic Devils and Black Magi: Reading Race from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
    1. Just Like Us: Cultural Constructions of Sexuality and Race in Roman Art: John R. Clarke
    2. Imaging the Self: Identity and Gender in Representations in a Yiddish Books of Customs: Diane Wolfthal
    3. A Sanctified Black: Maurice: Jean Devisse
    II. Imag(in)ing Race in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    4. The Imaginary Orient: Linda Nochlin
    5. Only Women should go to Turkey: Henriette Brown and the Orientalist Female Gaze: Reina Lewis
    6. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality: Sander Gilman
    7. Going Native: Abigail Solomon-Godeau
    8. Racism, Nationalism, and Nostalgia: J. Gray Sweeney
    9. Blacks in Shark- Infested Waters: Albert Boime
    10. Making a Man of Him: Masculinity and the Black Body in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Sculpture: Michael Hatt
    III. Modernism and its Primitive Legacy
    11. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern: James Clifford
    12. The White Peril and L'Art nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism: Patricia Leighten
    13. New Encounters with Les 'Desmoiselles d' Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism: Anna C. Chave
    14. Wilfredo Lam: Painter of Negritude: Robert Linsley
    15. Sargent Johnson: Afro-Californian Modernist: Judith Wilson
    16. Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism: Cornel West
    17. In Search of the Inauthentic: Disturbing Signs in Contemporary Native American Art: Jean Fisher
    18. Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat: bell hooks
    IV. Race-ing Us: White, Beige, Brown, and Black in the Twentieth Century
    19. International Abstraction in a National Context: Abstract Paintings in Korea, 1910- 1965: Jae- Ryung Roe
    20. The Other Immigrant: The Experience and Achievements of Afro-Asian Artists: Rasheed Araeen
    21. Reframing the Black Subject: Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation: Okwui Enwezor
    22. Biraciality and Nationhood in Twentieth-Century American Art: Kymberly N. Pinder
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    Biography

    Kymberly N. Pinder is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.