| ISBN |
0674504399 (hbk.) |
| 9780674504394 (hbk.) |
| Title |
The image of the black in African and Asian art / David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor |
| Publisher |
Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, In collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, 2017 |
| Physical desc. |
x, 434 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. [250], fig. 176 (In 07A.15); p. [259], fig. 181 (In 31.3); p. 260, fig. 182 (In 03.147b); p. 271, fig. 189 (In 07B.35); p. 272, fig. 191 (In 03.158a). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Bindman -- Part 1: Africa. Images of Africans by and of themselves: historical and comparative factors / Suzanne Preston Blier -- The body in African art / Kristina Van Dyke -- Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Picton -- The image of the black in early African photography / Christraud M. Geary -- The image of the black in modern and contemporary African art / Steven Nelson -- Part 2: Asia. The image of the black in Islamic art: the case of painting / Robert Hillenbrand -- The image of the black in India / John McLeod and Kenneth X. Robbins -- The image of the black in Chinese art / Don J. Wyatt -- The image of the black in Japanese art: from the beginnings to 1850 / Timon Screech -- The image of the black in Japanese art: nineteenth century to the present day / Alicia Volk. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07B |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 31 |
| Blacks in art |
| Art and race |
| Art, African -- Themes, motives |
| Art, Asian -- Themes, motives |
| Added name(s) |
Bindman, David 1940- editor |
| Blier, Suzanne Preston editor |
| Gates, Henry Louis Jr editor |
| Dalton, Karen C. C. 1948- editor |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Hutchins Center for African and African American Research |
