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Title The black figure in the European imaginary / Adrienne L. Childs, Susan H. Libby ; with an introduction by David Bindman.
Author Childs, Adrienne L., author.
Publication Info. Winter Park, Florida : The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College ; London : in association with D Giles Limited, 2017.
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Description 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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Note "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, organized by the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and held there from January 14 to May 14, 2017."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 79) and index.
Summary "With forty major loans, including paintings, engravings, lithographs, watercolors, sculpture, and decorative arts, this new volume studies the way in which the visual arts in Europe perceived, or imagined, the black figure during the "long" nineteenth century (ca.1750-1914)"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Lenders to the exhibition -- Director's foreword / Ena Heller -- Curators' acknowledgments / Adrienne L. Childs, Susan H. Libby -- The black figure in the European imaginary : an introduction / by David Bindman -- European art and the possibilities of blackness / Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby -- Plates -- Exhibition checklist.
Subject Blacks in art -- Exhibitions.
Art, European -- 19th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Blacks in art -- Exhibitions.
Art, European -- 19th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
1800-1899
Local wanderer.
OCLS local wanderer.
Added Author Libby, Susan Houghton, author.
George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, organizer, host institution.
ISBN 9781907804496 (paperback) : $30.00
1907804498 (paperback)