Acknowledgments to the New Edition

Bindman, David; Gates Jr., Henry Louis

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Acknowledgments to the New Edition

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators

Acknowledgments to the New Edition

Author

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143.003

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Acknowledgments to the New Edition

DAVID BINDMAN, KAREN C. C. DALTON, AND HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

This volume, consisting of two books, represents the third phase of the publication and republication of The Image of the Black in Western Art which began in November 2010. First published in 1989, it is the only complete volume in the series to have been written originally by a single author, the distinguished art historian Hugh Honour, though in this edition we have added two essays, one on Goya by Victor Stoichita and one on Russian painting by Paul Kaplan. It is to Hugh Honour that we owe the greatest debt for an exemplary text, which provided a model for the three books making up Volume III, which first appeared in 2010 and 2011.

Our warmest thanks must go to Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, and the Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas, for allowing us to reprint the original volume, which was initiated and carried out by the Foundation.

At the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, we owe a great debt to Sheldon Cheek, senior curatorial associate, and to Vera Grant, executive director, who have both worked tirelessly to bring the whole series to a successful conclusion, and to Joanne Kendall. We would like to thank Dean Henry Rosovsky for establishing the conditions under which the image archive could be housed at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard, and to thank President Neil Rudenstine for fulfilling those conditions and overseeing the moving of the archive from the Menil Foundation in Houston to Cambridge. We would also like to thank President Lawrence Summers for the generous space in which the archive and its library are housed within the Du Bois Institute in Harvard Square.

As editors we have found it a huge pleasure working with Sharmila Sen and her wonderfully enthusiastic colleagues at Harvard University Press—Ian Stevenson, Tim Jones, Annamarie Why, Jill Breitbarth, Eric Mulder, Adriana Kirilova, Greg Kornbluh, Abby Mumford, Heather Hughes, and John Walsh—who have preserved the virtues of the earlier volume but also improved it in numerous ways. We are also grateful to Liz Duvall, Ken Krugh, Kevin Krugh, and Cheryl Lincoln at Technologies ’N Typography, and to Ann Twombly.

We would also like to thank Zooid Pictures Ltd., especially Richard Philpott and Cristina Lombardo, who took on the enormous task of gathering the photographs for all the volumes and obtaining permissions for each one. They did this with great efficiency and good humor, and we are grateful to them.

DAVID BINDMAN, KAREN C. C. DALTON,
AND HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

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BOOKThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17364

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector’s items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones.

Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications of the representation of Africans, from the earliest discussions of the morality of slavery, through the rise of abolitionism, to the imposition of European imperialism on Africa. Popular imagery and great works, like Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa and Turner’s Slave Ship, are considered in depth, casting light on widely differing European responses to Africans and their descendants.

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Print publication date May 2012 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780674052598

EISBN 9780300244694

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