Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History

by Pinder,Kymberly N.

• ISBN13: 9780415927611
• ISBN10: 0415927617
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-08-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Race-ing Art Historyis the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Within these pages are representations of Nubians in ancient art, the great tradition of Western masters such as Manet and Picasso, and contemporary work by lesser known artists of color. Assembled chronologically, these essays draw upon multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory to confront the longstanding tradition of art as a means of looking at "the other." The essays address important questions about racial visibility and racial politics, asking whether modern concepts of race can be imposed upon ancient art, whether there is a link between pictorial realism and Orientalism, and how today's artists and critics can engage our visual culture's inherent racialized dimension. Richly illustrated, this pioneering volume lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the complex and shifting category of race and its significance in our visualculture and everyday lives. Unmatched in historical scope and presentation,Race-ing Art Historywill be the essential guide to the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating race into the study of art. A discussion guide is available at www.routledge-ny.com/pinderguide. Also includes an 8-page color insert.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
List of Figures	xi
List of Color Plates	xv
Introduction	1	(12)
Kymberly N. Pinder
Part One Black Athenas, Semitic Devils, and Black Magi Reading Race from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
``Just Like Us''	13	(8)
Cultural Constructions of Sexuality and Race in Roman Art
John R. Clarke
Imaging the Self	21	(16)
Ritual and Representation in a Yiddish Book of Customs
Diane Wolfthal
A Sanctified Black: Maurice	37	(32)
Jean Devisse
Part Two Imag(in)ing Race in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Imaginary Orient	69	(18)
Linda Nochlin
``Only women should go to Turkey''	87	(32)
Henriette Browne and the Female Orientalist Gaze
Reina Lewis
The Hottentot and the Prostitute	119	(20)
Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality
Sander Gilman
Going Native	139	(16)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Racism, Nationalism, and Nostalgia	155	(14)
J. Gray Sweeney
Blacks in Shark-Infested Waters	169	(22)
Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and Homer
Albert Boime
``Making a Man of Him''	191	(26)
Masculinity and the Black Body in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
Michael Hatt
Part Three Modernism and Its ``Primitive'' Legacy
Histories of the Tribal and the Modern	217	(16)
James Clifford
The While Peril and L'Art negre	233	(28)
Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism
Patricia Leighten
New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	261	(28)
Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism
Anna C. Chave
Wilfredo Lam	289	(18)
Painter of Negritude
Robert Linsley
Sargent Johnson	307	(14)
Afro-California Modernist
Judith Wilson
Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism	321	(10)
Cornel West
In Search of the ``Inauthentic''	331	(10)
Disturbing Signs in Contemporary Native American Art
Jean Fisher
Altars of Sacrifice	341	(12)
Re-membering Basquiat
Bell Hooks
Part Four Race-ing Us White, Beige, Brown, and Black in the Twentieth Century
International Abstraction in a National Context	353	(6)
Abstract Painting in Korea, 1910-1965
Jae-Ryung Roe
The Other Immigrant	359	(12)
The Experiences and Achievements of Afro-Asian Artists in the Metropolis
Rasheed Araeen
Reframing the Black Subject	371	(20)
Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation
Okwui Enwezor
Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art	391	(12)
Kymberly N. Pinder
List of Contributors	403	(4)
Permissions	407	(2)
Index	409