ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|55 pages
Black Athenas, Semitic Devils, and Black Magi
part Two|147 pages
Imag[in]ing Race in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
chapter 10|23 pages
“Making a Man of Him”
Masculinity and the Black Body in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
part Three|136 pages
Modernism and its "Primitive" Legacy
chapter 13|27 pages
New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism
chapter 17|10 pages
In Search of the "Inauthentic"
Disturbing Signs in Contemporary Native American Art
part Four|51 pages
Four Race-ing Us
chapter 19|5 pages
International Abstraction in a National Context
Abstract Painting in Korea, 1910-1965
chapter 20|12 pages
The Other Immigrant
The Experiences and Achievements of Afro-Asian Artists in the Metropolis
chapter 21|19 pages
Refraining the Black Subject
Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation
