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Title(s):
Seeing race before race : visual culture and the racial matrix in the premodern world / edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey.
Additional Title(s):
Visual culture and the racial matrix in the premodern world
Published/Created:
Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS Press, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
xxix, 274 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
NX650.R34 S44 2023 (LC) Oversize
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16732730
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Accompanying an exhibition opening at the Newberry Library in September 2023"-- Foreword.
"Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world"-- Provided by publisher.
"Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world. The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance. Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix" and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition "Seeing Race Before Race"-a collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Library-as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Terms:
Arts and society.
Arts and society.
Race awareness in art.
Race awareness in art.
Contributors:
Ndiaye, Noémie, editor.
Markey, Lia, editor.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, publisher.
Newberry Library, host institution.
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