1st Edition
Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies Confrontations and Contradictions
By Albert Alhadeff
Copyright 2020
242 Pages
16 Color & 65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
16 Color & 65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
16 Color & 65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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 approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents,... Read more
Introduction: Géricault Painting Black Bodies
1 Black Bodies
2 Prurient Bonds
3 Editing and Emendations
4 Parity
5 Fabricating Blacks
6 Deference and Decorum
7 Empathy
8 Quotidian Portraits
9 Epilogue
Biography
Albert Alhadeff is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Colorado Boulder.
