Routledge Research in Art and Race
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art and Race is a new series focusing on race as examined by scholars working in the fields of art history and visual studies. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions
1st Edition
By Albert Alhadeff
August 29, 2022
This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his ...
Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam
1st Edition
By Claude Cernuschi
June 14, 2022
This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology. Field work conducted in Cuba, including the witnessing of actual Afro-Cuban religious ...
The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture
1st Edition
By Jo-Ann Morgan
September 30, 2020
This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC and AfriCOBRA, who began questioning Western aesthetic traditions and created work that honored ...
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy
1st Edition
By Naurice Frank Woods, Jr.
May 07, 2019
Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In ...