Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered - Softcover

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<b>A critical reexamination of Carpeaux&#8217;s bust <i>Why Born Enslaved!</i> and other nineteenth-century antislavery images&#8212;this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty</b><br><br> This critical reexamination of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux&#8217;s iconic bust <i>Why Born Enslaved!</i> unpacks the sculpture&#8217;s complex and sometimes contradictory<br> engagement with an antislavery discourse. Noted art historians and writers discuss how categories of racial difference grew in popularity in the nineteenth century alongside a crescendo in cultural production in France during the Second Empire. By focusing on <i>Why Born Enslaved!</i> and comparing it to works by Carpeaux&#8217;s contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as to objects by twenty-first-century artists Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley, this volume explores such key themes as the portrayal of Black enslavement and emancipation; the commodification of images of Black figures; the role of sculpture in generating the sympathies of its audiences; and the relevance of Carpeaux&#8217;s sculpture to legacies of empire. The book also provides a chronology of events central to the histories of transatlantic slavery, abolition, colonialism, and empire.<br> &#160;

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