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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullins, Pamela A., author.

Series:

Anthem africology.

Anthem africology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art objects, African--Appreciation--United States--History--19th century.

Art objects, African.

Art objects, African--Appreciation--United States--History--20th century.

Art, American--19th century.

Art, American.

Art, American--20th century.

Art objects in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London, England : Anthem Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book will explore several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939. Drawing from primary source materials and various scholarship in the field (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, museum studied, art history, cultural studies), the book provides an analysis of the threads of white supremacy which run through early scholarship and understandings of Black African object within the United States and how scholars use the objects to reinforce narratives of 'primitive' Black Africa and civilized, advanced white Europe and the United States.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

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

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Mar 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Mullins, Pamela A. Black Africa and the US Art World in the Early 20th Century

ISBN:

1-83998-938-6

1-83998-937-8

OCLC:

1410599365