TY - BOOK ID - 57042840 TI - Exploring the black venus figure in aesthetic practices AU - Gjerden, Jorunn S. AU - Jegerstedt, Kari AU - Švrljuga, Željka PY - 2019 SN - 9789004395206 9789004407916 900440791X 9004395202 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - essays KW - postcolonialism KW - Venus [Mythological character] KW - Noires KW - Beauté féminine (esthétique) KW - Dans l'art KW - Dans l'art. KW - Women, Black, in art. KW - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) KW - Ideal beautiful women KW - Women in art UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:57042840 AB - 'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Zeljka Svrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia. ER -