Race Is Everything: Art and Human Difference - Couverture rigide

Bindman, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789146968 ISBN 13 : 9781789146967

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2023

Synopsis

''Race Is Everything' more than fulfils the promise of its title . . . a brilliant (and beautiful) work of cultural criticism.' - Sander Gilman, author of Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture

'David Bindman brilliantly explores the ways in which visual art has represented the very idea of racial hierarchy.' - Steven Lukes, New York University

'Race Is Everything' looks at ideas of 'racial science' in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and how art was influenced by them. It looks at race in general, but with a particular concentration on attitudes towards and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. David Bindman argues that behind all racial ideas is the belief that outward appearance, and especially skull-shape, can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races.
This book considers many aspects, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; Darwin, race and aesthetics; the 'Mediterranean race'; the visual aspects of eugenics; and the racial politics of Emil Nolde.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Bindman is Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London and Fellow of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He is author or editor of many books including Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century (Reaktion, 2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789146968
• ISBN 13: 9781789146967
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
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