Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered - Couverture souple

 
9781588397447: Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered
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ISBN 10 : 1588397440 ISBN 13 : 9781588397447
Editeur : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022

Synopsis

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

This critical reexamination of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's iconic bust Why Born Enslaved! unpacks the sculpture's complex and sometimes contradictory engagement with an antislavery discourse. Noted art historians and writers discuss how categories of racial difference grew in popularity in the nineteenth century alongside a crescendo in cultural production in France during the Second Empire. By focusing on Why Born Enslaved! and comparing it to works by Carpeaux's contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as to objects by twenty-first-century artists Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley, this volume explores such key themes as the portrayal of Black enslavement and emancipation; the commodification of images of Black figures; the role of sculpture in generating the sympathies of its audiences; and the relevance of Carpeaux's sculpture to legacies of empire. The book also provides a chronology of events central to the histories of transatlantic slavery, abolition, colonialism, and empire.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press


Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(March 10, 2022-March 5, 2023)

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À propos de l?auteur

Elyse Nelson is assistant curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European sculpture in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wendy S. Walters is concentration head in nonfiction and associate professor in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York.

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Éditeur
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1588397440
ISBN 13 
9781588397447
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
140
Éditeur
Nelson Elyse, Walters Wendy S.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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