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Hardcover Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Book

ISBN: 0801440858

ISBN13: 9780801440854

Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

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Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth century of the idea of race as it shaped and was shaped by the idea of aesthetics. Twelve full-color illustrations and sixty-five black-and-white illustrations from publications and artists of the day allow the reader to see eighteenth-century concepts of race translated into images. Human varieties are marked in such illustrations by exaggerated differences, with emphases...

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