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Investigating the symbolic construction of identity and myth from the angle of art, Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence takes up "black presences in European literature, visual art, and film." Fusing criticism, film theory, and fiction with a keenly poetic ear, Bryant reenters cultural artifacts to open up these symbolically loaded but structurally silenced or backgrounded characters and motifs. Her stories trace the ways in which black subjectivity is distributed or denied within pictures and plots, between viewers and artworks and artists, and in acts of conversation and debate, of queer identification or refusal to see. What is most remarkable is how Bryant transforms these elisions into acts of imagination, restoring or reconfiguring partially glimpsed subjects via fleet and surprising sentences that traverse the distance between representation and meaning.

Noirs au cinema --- Noirs dans l'art --- Noirs dans la litterature --- Noirs au cinema --- Noirs dans l'art --- Noirs dans la litterature

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Art, Ancient --- Art, Egyptian --- Art, Black. --- Black people in art. --- Art antique --- Art égyptien --- Noirs dans l'art

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Race relations --- Intercultural communication --- Blacks in art --- Civilization, Ancient --- Relations raciales --- Communication interculturelle --- Noirs dans l'art --- Civilisation ancienne --- History --- Histoire --- Black people in art. --- Race relations - History

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"This groundbreaking publication on Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's (1827-1875) bust Why Born Enslaved! examines the work in the context of transatlantic abolitionist movements and France's colonialist fascination with Africa in the nineteenth century. Thoughtful essays by noted art historians and literary scholars, including Adrienne L. Childs, James Smalls, and Wendy S. Walters, unpack European artists' engagement with the Black figure, simultaneously evoked as a changeable political symbol and a representation of exoticized beauty and desire. The authors compare Carpeaux's sculpture to works by his contemporaries, such as Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, Edmonia Lewis, and Louis Simon Boizot, as well as to objects by twenty-first-century artists Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley. In so doing, the book critically examines the portrayal of Black emancipation and personhood; the commodification of Black images to assert social capital; the role of sculpture in generating the sympathies of its audiences; and the relevance of Carpeaux's sculpture to legacies of empire in the postcolonial present. It will also feature a chronology of events central to the nineteenth-century antislavery movement."--Publisher's description. "Organized around a single object--the marble bust Why Born Enslaved! by French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux--Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast is the first exhibition at The Met to examine Western sculpture in relation to the histories of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and empire. Created in the wake of American emancipation and some twenty years after the abolition of slavery in the French Atlantic, Why Born Enslaved! was shaped by the enduring popularity of antislavery imagery, the development of nineteenth-century ethnographic theories of racial difference, and France's colonialist fascination with Africa. The exhibition will explore the sculpture's place within these contexts. Featuring more than thirty-five works of art in sections unfolding around Carpeaux's sculpture, Fictions of Emancipation will offer an in-depth look at portrayals of Black enslavement, emancipation, and personhood with an aim toward challenging the notion that representation in the wake of abolition constitutes a clear moral or political stance. Important works by Josiah Wedgwood, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Charles Cordier, Edmonia Lewis, Louis-Simon Boizot, and others will show how Western artists of the nineteenth century engaged with the Black figure as a political symbol and site of exoticized beauty, while contemporary sculptures by Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley will connect the dialogue around Carpeaux's bust to current conversations about the legacies of slavery in the Western world. This exhibition was conceived in collaboration with guest curator Wendy S. Walters and enriched through conversations with numerous intellectual partners. It is one of many projects that the Museum is undertaking in an effort to reassess and broaden the narratives it presents about the past and present."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- slavery --- colonization --- political art --- African American --- anno 1800-1899 --- Slavery in art --- Black people in art --- Sculpture, French --- Noirs dans l'art --- Slavery in art. --- Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- dekolonisatie

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Art --- De Vaucleroy, P. --- Kunst --- Peinture --- Schilderkunst --- Blacks in art. --- Noirs dans l'art --- Vaucleroy, Pierre de, --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo (République démocratique) --- In art --- Dans l'art --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Vaucleroy, de, Pierre --- Criticism and interpretation --- In art. --- Black people in art.