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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.003
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This volume consisting of two books was not part of the original plan for The Image of the Black in Western Art, which was finally completed in four volumes (eight books) in 2012. When Dominique and Jean de Menil conceived the series in the 1960s they did not envisage it going beyond the early years of the twentieth century. The idea of the present volume came out of discussions among ourselves and above all with Sharmila Sen, for whose enthusiasm we are extremely grateful. Unlike the previous volumes which all had their origins in the Paris office of the project, under Ladislas Bugner, this volume originated entirely at Harvard, in a collaboration between the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Harvard University Press.
We owe a great debt first of all to the contributors, who have all carried out their tasks with imagination, collegiality, and the highest degree of professionalism. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with them and with our colleagues at the Du Bois Institute, especially Sheldon Cheek, Vera Grant, Krishna Lewis, Amy Gosdanian, and Abby Wolf. Other fellows of the Du Bois Institute have played an important part, and we are grateful especially to Paul Kaplan, Marial Iglesias Utset, and Adrienne Childs.
As ever we would like to thank Dean Rosovsky for establishing the conditions under which the image archive could be housed at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard, and 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; Glenn Hutchins, the chair of the National Advisory Board of the Du Bois Institute; and Renée Mussai of Autograph ABP.
Once again we have found it a huge pleasure working with Sharmila Sen and her wonderful colleagues at Harvard University Press—Heather Hughes, Annamarie Why, Jill Breitbarth, Eric Mulder, Adriana Cloud, and Abby Mumford, as well as Cheryl Lincoln, Ken Krugh, and Kevin Krugh at Technologies ’N Typography—who have worked to match and even surpass the high level of production set by the earlier volumes.
We have enjoyed working with Richard Philpott and Cristina Lombardo of Zooid Pictures Ltd., who had the enormous task of gathering the photographs for the volumes and obtaining permissions, which they carried out in an exemplary fashion.
DAVID BINDMAN, KAREN C. C. DALTON,
AND HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR
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