The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition v. III: 3

by David Bindman (Author), HenryLouisGates (Author), PaulH.D.Kaplan (Author), PaulH.D.Boucher (Author), KarenC.C.Dalton (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $116.23

  The Eighteenth Century features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery's apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were established.