"This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, organized by the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and held there from January 14 to May 14, 2017."
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 79) and index
Contents:
Lenders to the exhibition -- Director's foreword / Ena Heller -- Curators' acknowledgments / Adrienne L. Childs, Susan H. Libby -- The black figure in the European imaginary : an introduction / by David Bindman -- European art and the possibilities of blackness / Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby -- Plates -- Exhibition checklist
Summary:
"With forty major loans, including paintings, engravings, lithographs, watercolors, sculpture, and decorative arts, this new volume studies the way in which the visual arts in Europe perceived, or imagined, the black figure during the "long" nineteenth century (ca.1750-1914)"-- Provided by publisher