The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Bindman, David; Gates Jr., Henry Louis; Blier, Suzanne Preston

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt—positioned properly as part of African history—this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization.

This volume complements the vision of art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil who, during the 1960s, founded an image archive to collect the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. A half‐century later, Harvard University Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research completed the historic publication of The Image of the Black in Western Art—ten books in total—beginning with Egyptian antiquities and concluding with images that span the twentieth century. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art reinvigorates the de Menil family’s original mission and reorients the study of the black body with a new focus on Africa and Asia.

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Print publication date February 2017 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780674504394

EISBN 9780300244731

Illustrations 265

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List of illustrations

Ruler with subjects
Ethiopian slave caravan. Reprinted from "Egypt and Nubia" (London, 1846–1849)
Group of Starving African Men and Boys Removed to the Royal Navy Ship "Daphne" from a Captured Dhow
Differences in Coiffure and Facial Markings as Seen by an Early European Traveler
Incised ochre tablet
Kekum njang in Kom/Oku, Cameroon, King Jinabo II in front of the royal figures
Maasai woman carrying her baby in traditional clothing and jewelry in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Ramesses II receiving gifts
Janus-form skin-covered mask, Ejegham people
Man with a red tuft on his forehead, San people
Woman with a horned headdress
Terracotta figure, Nok people
Copper alloy head with distinctive Igbo Nri facial markings, Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria
Terracotta head, Lydenburg, South Africa
Commemorative Portrait Head
Figurative Harp (Domu)
Nubian wrestlers; fragment of low relief, Memphis, tomb of the vizier and future pharaoh Horemheb
Bwoon mask referencing a Pygmy
A pair of chiwara antelope masks, Mali
The thunder god, Amadioha, and the earth goddess, Ale
Altar group (aseberia) with Oba Ewuakpe
Figure of the god Ore, Ife people
L'Heure de la Démocratie en Afrique
Fon "bocio" figure
Bieri figure
Ibeji figures honoring twins
King Behanzin as a shark
King Taharqa with the ram of Amun, Kawa, Nubia
Figure of the war god Gu
Gold head of Worosa
Benin head
Maternity figure
D'mba (Nimba) shoulder mask, Baga people
Male funerary figure
Figure from Divination basket (ngombo)
Divination basket of fetishes
Seated female figure (Jo/Gwan figure)
Figure of Chief Chibinda Ilunga
Staff ("nkawa wa nganga")
Headrest
Staff
Figures of woman and child. Nala, Congo (Belgian Congo)
Mother and child
Metal knife with carved wooden head image
Ceremonial ax, Urna Numba Kudja/Luba
Nkondi (Power Figure)
Cup supported by human figure
Altar ring
Male figure
Reliquary object
Crest mask
Atwonzen (Trophy Head)
War medicine container (kakwo), Bamum, Cameroon
Figurative sculpture, Mande-speaking people
Brass plaque
Oba Erediauwa at Ugie Erha Oba, an event in the annual Igue festival that honors the king's paternal ancestors, Palace of the Oba, Benin City, Nigeria
Royal crown (ade)
Funerary screen
Buli-master stool
Gelede masquerader with a biplane surmounting the headdress, Lagos, Nigeria
Gelede masks commemorating Chief Daniel Taiwo. Lagos, Nigeria
Masqueraders at a Dogon funerary celebration, Amani, Mali
Joway of Nagazi (Ijoweyi, or John Wayne), drawn by Sule, a school-boy in Nigeria
Avereho, a popular performer at a night festival in Okene, Ebira, Nigeria
Pende masquerade at Ngashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Multi-headed and Multi-mouthed Mask Able to Gobble Up Anything in His Way, danced and sculpted by Kyoshi Mahumbu, Festival de Gungu, Central Pende, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mapiko mask, a portrait of President Samora Machel, Makonde, Mozambique
The Bariba Man at the festival of ecane, Ebira, Nigeria
Age-grade mask. Ogbe, Nigeria
Bamana "ntomo" mask
Komo helmet mask
Ci-wara masked performer commemorating the mythic antelope-man who gave the Bamana their agricultural skills, Dyele, Bamana, Mali
Gon mask in the form of a gorilla's head, Kwele, Gabon
Ndoli jowei masquerade and Sande Society officials, Mende people, Sierra Leone, Njahindama village, Kakua chiefdom, Bo district
Mwaash aMbooy
Ndako gboya masqueraders, Nupe people, Nigeria
D'mba helmet mask
Salo Baki, "Sibondel," Baga Sitemu, Guinea
Sogo bò performance of the buffalo, with puppets on head, horns, and back, Bamana people, Mali
Ekuoba, a reembodied elder, hidden within the costume and visiting his household to bring healing during the new season, Ebira people, Nigeria
Egungun masqueraders of the Alabala Type, Ilaro, Nigeria
Ogun, "god of iron," an "epa"-type mask, performing at the new yam festivities in July, its face covered with the fresh blood of sacrifice, Oye-Ekiti, Yoruba, Nigeria
An okoroshi-oma with a cross-dressing attendant, Igbo people, Nigeria
Musicians and chorus at the Okumkpa performance, Mgbom village, Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria
Ivory "skull"
The head of an Akoko-Edo matrilineage, holding a cast brass mask, Benin City, Nigeria
Son, a Liberian sculptor, carving a mask with the features of a beautiful woman, Nuopie, Liberia
Portrait mask of Moya Yanso, Baule people, Ivory Coast
A Calabar Chief
Untitled portrait of Beverly Page Yates, Monrovia, Liberia
Untitled portrait of a woman and child, present-day Nigeria (?)
Miss L. R. Williams of Fernando Po, daughter of Pennua Barleycorn, Freeton, Sierra Leone (?)
Back of a carte de visite
Untitled portrait
Ancestral screen (duein fubara), Ijo-Kalabari peoples, Nigeria
Chief Steward, Julu, and one of the pantry boys, Assimo, off duty
Chr. Afari, present-day Chana
High Life in Badagry, present-day Nigeria
Bundu girls in dancing costume, Mendi country, Sierra Leone
Libreville (Gabon)--Photographe--Diplôme 1906–1907, Libreville, Gabon
Ougooué Lambaréné--Jeunes Filles (Ogowe River, Lambarene, Young Girls)
Chief Tom West in Perry Dress standing, Buguma 1900, present-day Nigeria
Gold Coast--Fantee women, present-day Ghana
Portrait of a girl before entering seclusion
Memento mori
Acquah III King of Winnebath [now Simpa], present-day Ghana
Sierra Leone--Freetown--King Prempeh with his Parents and Chiefs of Ashantee as Political Prisoners in Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
King of Benin, Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi
Sisi Nurse
Women's Revolt
The Royal Couple (Couple Royale)
Still from Borom Sarret
Untitled
Picnic at the Chaussée (Pique-nique à la Chaussée)
The Old Man, the Medal, and the Statue
Colonie Belge: Under Belgian Rule, from the "History of Zaire" series
Lumumba Makes His Famous Speech, from the "History of Zaire" series
Why Did I Sign a Contract? (Pourquoi ai-je signé un contrat?)
White Bouquet
Every Moment Counts, from Ecstatic Antibodies
Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 13.00 Hours
Section of Lord Byron's Drawing Room
Autoportraits, Tati series – Le chef (celui qui vendit l'Afrique aux colons) [The Chief (Who Sold Africa to the Colonists)]
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Aimé Césaire)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Angela Davis)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Malcolm X)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Nelson Mandela)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Seydou Keïta)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Léopold Sédar Senghor)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Tommie Smith)
Autoportrait, African Spirits series (Muhammad Ali)
Nigerian Vogue, from the "Cover Girl" series
Static Drift
White Ebony
The Lady and the Maid
Disarmament Series
Go for It Stars
From A South African Colouring Book
From A South African Colouring Book
It left him cold—the death of Steve Biko
A Few South African Women
A Few South African Women
Felix in Exile
Slide 51/80 and Slide 52/80
Rainbow Series #1 and #10
Red, from the series Colour Me
Yellow, from the series Colour Me
Brown, from the series Colour Me
White, from the series Colour Me
Untitled, from the series Interiors
Miʾrajnama: evil-speakers in Hell. Heart
Jambière historiée (Coptic textile), Antinoë
Slip Painted Bowl (figural), Iran (Nishapur)
Slave Market. Al-Harīrī, "Makāmāt (The Assemblies)," fol. 105r
The Negus of Abyssinia receives the Mecca envoys, fol. 52r, from Rashid al-Din, World History
A ruler serenaded by black musicians, p. 13, no. 1. Iran
A black man at a court reception, p. 3, Iran
Black men in a fight, leaf from Diez album, Iran
A woman approaching a bound blackman who is asleep, leaf from Diez album, Iran
Men watching a tug-of-war
Demon in Chains, Transoxiana
A black woman flanked by two men, fol. 152r
Three seated black men
Black couple
Three old men, fol. 32v
A black man beating a horse
Dancing shamans
Two dervishes
Two men and an old woman, fol. 90a
A black man pulling at his tongue, watched by an older man
A black man playing a stringed instrument while an onlooker claps his hands
Two men conversing
An old black man
A black man with a staff
The building of the palace of Khwarnaq, from Nizami, "Khamsa," Heart, fol. 154v
Bilal the Abyssinian giving the call to prayer
An Abyssinian from Ahmadnagar, Northern India
Jahangir shooting at the head of Malik Ambar, Northern India
An East African youth looking in a mirror, from Jami, "Haft Aurang," Mashhad (?)
The dancing girl of Mohenjo Daro
Sultan Ghiyas ad-Din Shah Khalji of Malwa (Mandu) and his maid-servants, Nimatnama
Hamza, landhaur, and Zumurrud Shah stand bound before Lakman's throne, from the "Hamzanama," fol. 6 front
Joseph bathing in the Nile, Kashmir
A crowd paying their respects to Akbar
Dignitaries at the enthronement of Jahangir
Nawab Sidi Muhammad Haidar Khan of Sachin
Alexander defeats the Sangis, "Iskandarnama," Bengal
A prince being entertained in the women's quarters while the men feast outside the walls
An African at a boisterous party at an inn. The Deccan (Aurangabad?), Mughal
An intoxicated crowd, Kishangarh
An Abyssinian retainer of Rustam Khan
Allah-wirdi Khan receiving petitions, Hyderabad
Itimad Kahn submits to Akbar
Shah Jahan honoring Muslim theologians
A sultan in his garden, from the "Pem Nem," fol. 89v, Bijapur
Rao Desalji holding court, from Kenneth X. Robbins and John McLeod, eds., "African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat" (Ahmedabad, 2006), p. 236
Rao Lakhpatji in procession, Kutch
Rao Lakhpatji holding court. From Kenneth X. Robbins and John McLeod, eds., "African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat" (Ahmedabad, 2006)
Wall painting
A troop of mounted men, Bhavnagar
The Death of Kahn Jahan Lodi, from the Padshahnama
A musician
Mirza Muhammad Hakim with Hajji Yaqut Beg in Shahdara Bagh, Kabul, fol. 47
Jahangir receives Prince Khurram on his return from the Mewar campaign (19 February 1615)
An African eunuch, Golconda, from Kenneth X. Robbins and John McLeod, eds., "African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat" (Ahmedabad, 2006), p. 118
Malik Ambar
Possibly Fath Khan, son of Malik Ambar
An Abyssinian (Fateh Khan?) from Ahmadnagar
Ikhlas Khan standing, Bijapur
Ikhlas Khan and Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah of Bijapur
Yasmin Mahal, wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, from the Ishaqnama
Nawab Sidi Mohammad Khan III of Janjira
Nawab Ibrahim Khan II of Sachin. Sachin Palace, from Kenneth X. Robbins and John McLeod, eds., "African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat" (Ahmedabad, 2006), p. 222
The Sidi Dhammal
Portrait of Hua Guo Envoy, Zhi Gong Tu (copy of Northern Song Dynasty AD 960–1127)
Portrait of Lang Ya Xiu Envoy, Zhi Gong Tu (copy of Northern Song Dynasty AD 960–1127)
Figurine of Malay-Negrito youth
Figurine of black acrobat with Africanized features
Figurines of female and male African servants excavated from the tomb of Lady Pei, Xi'an
Chinese Menj of the Tang Buying Foreign Slaves
Khubilai Khan Hunting
Khubilai Khan Hunting, detail
Tribute Bearers, detail
Black devil, From Cai Ruxian, Portraits of Eastern Barbarians
Illustration of "The Kunlun Slave," from Illustrated Biographies of Master Ren Xiong
Awakened Africa
For Independence and Freedom!
US Imperialism, Get Out of Africa!
Chairman Mao Is the Great Savior of the World Revolutionary Peoples
Illustration of colored plastic figurine "Black Child," from "Tianjin caisu de sin chengjiu" (New Achievements in Tianjin Colored Plastic Figures), "Fine Arts," 45–47 (June 1965)
Blackfaced Chinese actors in Beijing performing "War Drums on the Equator," by Li Huang and others
Chinese as helpers, from Rainbow of Friendship
Stone of Hope of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Obamao
The base of a Buddhist altar, detail
World map
World map with varieties of mankind
Portugese Ships in Japanese and Foreign Harbors
Portugese Ships in Japanese and Foreign Harbors, detail
Illustration of Taishōkan, detail
Yasuke, cover illustration, "Kurosuke," by Kurusu Yoshio
Foreign Kings on Horseback
Foreign Kings on Horseback, detail of Emperor Susenyos
Detail of page from "Bunsei nana kōshin natsu ikoku tenmasen Ōtsuhama a jōriku narabini shokizu tō" (The landing of a foreign lighter at the port of Otsu in 1824)
An African musician
Black Ship and Crew, detail
An Officier and a Black Man, detail from Commodore Perry's Expedition to Hakodate
A minstrel show onboard the "Powhatan": detail of The Mission of Ciommodore Perry to Japan, 1854
Comics from Adventures of Dankichi
Our Divine Troops to the Rescue
Portrait of a Negro
At the Chop Suey Restaurant
Death (Lynched Figure)
Scottsboro Boys
Lynching (aka The Noose)
Ku Klux Klan (South U.S.A.)
Bonus March
Emancipation of the Negro Slaves panel from "The Civil War" mural
Station Duty
Baby-chan (Koganechō), from Tokiwa Toyoko, Kikenna adabana (Dangerous Unblooming Flower)
Yokosuka, from the series Chewing Gum and Chocolate
Image from Harlem: Black Angels
From the series Hot Days in Okinawa
Portrait (Futago)
From the series Cover

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

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Preface

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

This book is a companion volume to the series The Image of the Black in Western Art, which was completed in five volumes (ten books) between 2010 and 2014, the last volume being on the twentieth century. Of these, three volumes (antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the nineteenth century) were reprints of volumes that...

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Subjects: Blacks in artSegregationArt collectionsArtists, BlackArt, Asian

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The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

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David Bindman

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

In the preface by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to the new and reprinted volumes of The Image of the Black in Western Art, published between 2010 and 2014, much was made of the transformation of the intellectual climate...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artArt, Ancient--EgyptRace awareness in artArt and societySlavery--Africa--History

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Part I: Africa

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Part One

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

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1. Images of Africans by and of Themselves: Historical and Comparative Factors

Suzanne Preston Blier

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

What factors mattered to Africans in representing themselves through their arts? How are these visual forms to be understood in the broader spectrum of time and space? In many ways these issues speak to the larger ones of what it means to be human. Important here is how one portrays oneself as opposed to others. However, there are other questions in play as well: concerns as varied as the...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artRace awareness in artSelf-presentation in artBody marking in artHuman skin color in art

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2. The Body in African Art

Kristina Van Dyke

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

The body, real or depicted, does not represent the limits of person-hood in Africa, but rather should be considered a temporary site, always in flux, for the articulation of the subject. It might be understood as the confluence of various spiritual and physical strands, from ancestral currents to an animating life force to individualized threads setting the destiny of the person whose body they...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artSpiritual life in artMind and body in artBody artProportion (Anthropometry) in art

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3. Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa

John Picton

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Patrick McNaughton was writing about Mande power associations, but his comment speaks well to the effect any encounter with masked performers, whatever their specific role and status, can have on people and communities...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artMasks, AfricanMasqueradesImperialismIdentity (Psychology) in art

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4. The Image of the Black in Early African Photography

Christraud M. Geary

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Some 117 years ago, in 1899, the inveterate British traveler and author Mary Henrietta Kingsley...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artPortrait photographyPhotography--History--19th centuryPhotographers, BlackEthnology

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5. The Image of the Black in Modern and Contemporary African Art

Steven Nelson

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

In the original volumes of The Image of the Black in Western Art, published between 1976 and 1989, the authors, perhaps not surprisingly, placed the majority of their attention on the ways in which white artists expressed and negotiated their perceptions of black people. The thousands upon thousands of images excavated by the Image of the Black Project, begun by Dominique de Menil in 1960...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artArtists, BlackArt, Modern--20th century--Themes, motivesIdentity (Psychology) in artImperialism

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Part II: Asia

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Part Two

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

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6. The Image of the Black in Islamic Art: The Case of Painting

Robert Hillenbrand

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Since one third of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims live in Africa, it is truly remarkable that, while their place in Islamic history and society has been investigated...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artIslamic artOther (Philosophy) in artHuman skin color in artHuman figure in art

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7. The Image of the Black in India

John McLeod and Kenneth X. Robbins

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

India is perhaps unique as a place outside Africa where sub-Saharan Africans ruled largely non-African populations for a considerable time...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

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Subjects: Blacks in artOther (Philosophy) in artIndia--History--1000-1765Race relationsMiniature painting, Mogul Empire

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8. The Image of the Black in Chinese Art

Don J. Wyatt

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

For vastly more of us than should be the case, any consideration of the image of the black in Chinese art begins with the need to demonstrate that there is evidence attesting to its existence. For a host of reasons, some well-founded and others not, the very thought of an incidence, not to mention a heritage, of the black image in the Chinese context strikes the uninformed observer as being as...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Subjects: Blacks in artSlavery in artOther (Philosophy) in artArt, ChineseRace relations

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9. The Image of the Black in Japanese Art: From the Beginnings to 1850

Timon Screech

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

Many cultures see, or imagine, people with skins differently pigmented from their own, and create stories and pictures of them. Yet although there are many ancient Japanese legends of various kinds of Other, and of strange people in remote parts, the image of a people who could be called...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

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Subjects: Blacks in artOther (Philosophy) in artArt, Japanese--To 1868ImperialismRace relations

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10. The Image of the Black in Japanese Art: Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

Alicia Volk

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

The imagery of blacks that has accrued in Japan from the nineteenth century to the present is rooted, as we might expect, in the vicissitudes of the modern nation’s geopolitical...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor)

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Subjects: Blacks in artOther (Philosophy) in artArt, Japanese--20th centuryImperialismRace relations

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