Title Black Africa and the US art world in the early 20th century : aesthetics, white supremacy / P.A. Mullins

Published London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, 2024 ©2024

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) Contents 1. The Enlightenment and white supremacy -- 2. Objects, sensation, truth -- 3. Black African aesthetics -- 4. Appropriating Black Africa -- 5. Black African art? -- 6. Collecting Black Africa, exhibiting white supremacy -- 7. Ancestral contact: Victorian phantasmagoria, artists, and Black Africa -- 8. Diasporic nostalgia: the Harlem Renaissance and Black African objects -- 9. Blackness after the Renaissance -- 10. Twenty-first-century colonialism Summary This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes The author is an independent interdisciplinary scholar of philosophy, race, history, sociology, and culture Print version record Subject Art, African -- 19th century -- Social aspects -- United States Art, African -- 20th century -- Social aspects -- United States Art objects, African -- 19th century -- Social aspects -- United States Art objects, African -- 20th century -- Social aspects -- United States Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century. Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century. White supremacy (Social structure) -- United States Art objects, African. Art, American -- 19th century -- History and criticism Art, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism Form Electronic book ISBN 9781839989384 1839989386 9781839989377 1839989378

Other Titles Black Africa and the United States art world in the early twentieth century

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