Description
| Product ID: | 9781588397447 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Fictions of Emancipation |
| Subtitle: | Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered |
| Authors: | Author: Elyse Nelson, Wendy S. Walters |
| Page Count: | 140 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Non-graphic and electronic art forms, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Non-graphic art forms, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty |
| Imprint Name: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Publisher Name: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-29 |
