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African Venice : a guide to art, culture and people / Paul Kaplan and Shaul Bassi ; foreword by Igiaba Scego ; afterword by Maaza Mengiste.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- author.
- Bassi, Shaul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--In art.
- Africa.
- Art--Italy--Venice.
- Art.
- Art, Italian--African influences.
- Art, Italian.
- Italy.
- Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : color illustrations, color maps
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespeare’s Othello, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, and the remarkable visibility of African and Afro-descendant artists at the Venice Biennale. These tours are enriched by more than twenty essays, poems, and reflections that celebrate, question, and reimagine Venice’s Black past and present. From premodern paintings and sculpture to contemporary artworks, African Venice will show you the city as you have never seen it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-271).
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 12, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- African Venice
- ISBN:
- 9780271100005
- 0271100001
- 9780271100012
- 027110001X
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000226565
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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