Fictions of Emancipation (Paperback)

Elyse Nelson

ISBN 10: 1588397440 / ISBN 13: 9781588397447

Edité par Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022

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Paperback. A critical reexamination of Carpeauxs bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery imagesthis book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty This groundbreaking publication on Jean-Baptiste Carpeauxs (18271875) bust Why Born Enslaved! examines the work in the context of transatlantic abolitionist movements and Frances colonialist fascination with Africa in the nineteenth century. Thoughtful essays by noted art historians and literary scholars, including Adrienne L. Childs, James Smalls, and Wendy S. Walters, unpack European artists engagement with the Black figure, simultaneously evoked as a changeable political symbol and a representation of exoticized beauty and desire. The authors compare Carpeauxs sculpture to works by his contemporaries, such as Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, Edmonia Lewis, and Louis Simon Boizot, as well as to objects by twenty-first-century artists Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley. In so doing, the book critically examines the portrayal of Black emancipation and personhood; the commodification of Black images to assert social capital; the role of sculpture in generating the sympathies of its audiences; and the relevance of Carpeauxs sculpture to legacies of empire in the postcolonial present. It will also feature a chronology of events central to the nineteenth-century antislavery movement. A critical reexamination of Carpeauxs bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery imagesthis book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Fictions of Emancipation (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1588397440
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781588397447
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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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)

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.