The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

by Adrienne L. Childs

In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by essays written by major scholars, appeared in three large‐format volumes, consisting of one or more books, that quickly became collector's items. A half‐century later, Harvard University...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052692
• ISBN13: 9780674052697
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 5.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.0" x 11.4"