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- catalog abstract ""Boime presents a major critique and revisionist interpretation of the portrayal of black people in the nineteenth century ... examines the fundamental historical, social, and cultural assumptions of those times. Reading the images as texts, Boime ... demonstrates how the art reveals ... deep-seated attitudes of that time toward blacks ... Though the art revealed the controlling social hierarchy ... it also presented the perspective of blacks themselves, 'insiders' experiencing the oppressiveness of the images that stereotyped and confined them ... Boime shows that art, by shaping and reinforcing social standards, contributed directly to the debasement and subjugation of African peoples and their descendants of the diaspora"--Dustjacket.".
- catalog contributor b2779421.
- catalog created "c1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "c1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
- catalog description ""Boime presents a major critique and revisionist interpretation of the portrayal of black people in the nineteenth century ... examines the fundamental historical, social, and cultural assumptions of those times. Reading the images as texts, Boime ... demonstrates how the art reveals ... deep-seated attitudes of that time toward blacks ... Though the art revealed the controlling social hierarchy ... it also presented the perspective of blacks themselves, 'insiders' experiencing the oppressiveness of the images that stereotyped and confined them ... Boime shows that art, by shaping and reinforcing social standards, contributed directly to the debasement and subjugation of African peoples and their descendants of the diaspora"--Dustjacket.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 241-251.".
- catalog description "Introduction : the art of darkness -- Triangular trade and triangular compositions -- The revulsion to cruelty -- The question of black competency -- Burgoo and bourgeois : the images of a border-state consciousness -- Emancipation and the freed.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 256 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0874742544".
- catalog identifier "0874742579 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "c1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "704.9/499730496073 19".
- catalog subject "African Americans in art.".
- catalog subject "Art, American 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, American.".
- catalog subject "Art, European.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 19th century Europe.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 19th century United States.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 19th century.".
- catalog subject "N8232 .B57 1990".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : the art of darkness -- Triangular trade and triangular compositions -- The revulsion to cruelty -- The question of black competency -- Burgoo and bourgeois : the images of a border-state consciousness -- Emancipation and the freed.".
- catalog title "The art of exclusion : representing Blacks in the nineteenth century / Albert Boime.".
- catalog type "text".