A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa's people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony Appiah In addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa's people in
Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the
scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about
Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. --
Kwame Anthony Appiah
In addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving
meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with
extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an
alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for
both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
The Image of the Black in Western Art [is] a truly epic
project...The series, scheduled for completion in 2014, is, so far,
as eye-opening to view as it is to read and, one volume at a time,
could be the answer to gift gifting for several years to come. --
Holland Cotter * New York Times *
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