Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered - Elyse Nelson - Books - Metropolitan Museum of Art - 9781588397447 - March 29, 2022
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Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered

Elyse Nelson

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Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty


192 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 29, 2022
ISBN13 9781588397447
Publishers Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pages 140
Dimensions 232 × 182 × 15 mm   ·   490 g
Language English  
Editor Nelson, Elyse
Editor Walters, Wendy S.