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Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered
Elyse Nelson
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered
Elyse Nelson
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. |
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