Dominique de Menil’s monumental archival project of collecting - TopicsExpress



          

Dominique de Menil’s monumental archival project of collecting and documenting the “image of the black in Western art” began in the 1960s as an aesthetic form of resistance to anti-black racism at the height of the civil rights movement. But with the publication of the fifth volume, concentrating on the 20th century, it has become a necessary cultural resource documenting the visual construction of blackness over the past 5,000 years.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:17:57 +0000

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