IMAGES OF THE BLACK

Vercoutter, Jean, Jean Leclant, Frank M. Snowden, Jr., & Jehan Desanges, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 1976).

Devise, Jean, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the Age of Discovery Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 1979) ("May readers and researchers not forget this Notice, which is in effect a warning and which applies to both parts of the second volume. Indeed, [the authors] wish to state clearly that this book is a beginning, a groundbreaking, and invitation to look further, to be curious: it is not the soft pillow on which the hasty certitudes of hurried civilizations too often fall asleep." Id. at 8.).

Devise, Jean, & Mollat, Michel, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the Age of Discovery, Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 1979) ("Many see the sixteenth century as the starting point of relations between Europe and black Africa, and in a way this is not inexact, give or take fifty years. This book, however, proves that these relations had a long prehistory. If Africa hardly dreamed of Europe before the middle of the fifteenth century, Europe, on the other hand, had had certain ideas and certain images of the black continent and its peoples for centuries before. The least one can say is that a real conditioning of European reflexes and opinions was already in existent when actual contact with the black world was reestablished." "That contact coincided with the development of the African slave trade and also with the affirmation of a mentality and of a conception of art already modern. In a few years these facts eclipsed an image of the black that was the fruit of a centuries-old evolution. It seems to us all the more important to rediscover that image through the documents that fixed its various forms and so to show the vertiginous abysses from which have emerged some of the behavior patterns of the Europeans of today." Id. at 258.).

Bindman, David,  & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition: Part 1, Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/Harvard U. Press, 2010).

Bindman, David,  & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition: Part 2, Europe and the World Beyond (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/Harvard U. Press, 2011).

Bindman, David,  & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition: Part 3, The Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/Harvard U. Press, 2011).

Honor, Hugh, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From The American Revolution to World War I: Part 1, Slaves and Liberators (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 1989).

Honor, Hugh, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From The American Revolution to World War I: Part 2, Black Models and White Myths (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 1989).

Bindman, David,  & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Part 1, The Impact of Africa (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/Harvard U. Press, 2014).

Bindman, David,  & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Part 2, The Rise of Black Artists (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/Harvard U. Press, 2014).