The image of the Black in western art / David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editors ; Karen C.C. Dalton, associate editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. From the Pharaohs to the fall of the Roman Empire -- v. 2. pt. 1. From the early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery": from the demonic threat to the incarnation of sainthood -- v. 2. pt. 2. From the early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery" : Africans in the Christian ordinance of the world -- v. 3. pt. 1. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : artists of the Renaissance and Baroque -- v. 3. pt. 2. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : Europe and the world beyond -- v. 3. pt. 3. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : the eighteenth century -- v. 4. pt. 1. From the American Revolution to World War I : slaves and liberators -- v. 4. pt. 2. From the American Revolution to World War I : Black models and White myths -- v. 5. pt. 1. The twentieth century : the impact of Africa -- --

Volume 1. From the Pharaohs to the fall of the Roman Empire : -- Introduction to the New Edition: Race and Representation in Ancient Art: Black Athena and After / Jeremy Tanner -- 1. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt: From the Beginnings to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty / Jean Vercoutter -- 2. Cushites and Meroites: Iconography of the African Rulers in the Ancient Upper Nile / Jean Leclant -- 3. Iconographical Evidence on the Black Populations in Greco-Roman Antiquity / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- 4. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient North Africa / Jehan Desanges -- 5. Egypt, Land of Africa, in the Greco-Roman World / Jean Leclant -- --

Volume 2, part 1. From the early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery": from the demonic threat to the incarnation of sainthood: -- Introduction to the New Edition / Paul H. D. Kaplan -- 1. Christians and Black / Jean Devisse -- 2. The Black and His Color: From Symbols to Realities / Jean Devisse -- 3. A Sanctified Black: Maurice / Jean Devisse -- The Theme of "Ethiopia" and "Ethiopians" in Patristic Literature / Jean Marie Courtès -- --

Volume 2, part 2. From the early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery" : Africans in the Christian ordinance of the world: -- Introduction to the New Edition / Paul H. D. Kaplan -- 1. The Shield and the Crown / Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat -- 2. The Appeal to the Ethiopian / Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat -- 3. The Frontiers in 1460 / Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat -- 4. The African Transposed / Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat -- Conclusion / Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat -- --

Volume 3, part 1. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : artists of the Renaissance and Baroque: -- Introduction / David Bindman -- 1. The Epiphany of the Black Magus Circa 1500 / Joseph Leo Koerner -- 2. Italy, 1490-1700 / Paul H. D. Kaplan -- 3. The Image of the Black in Spanish Art: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Victor Stoichita -- 4. The Black Presence in British Art: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / David Bindman -- 5. Rembrandt's Africans / Elmer Kolfin -- 6. Heliodorus's An Ethiopian Story in Seventeenth-Century European Art / Joaneath Spicer -- --

Volume 3, part 2. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : Europe and the world beyond: -- Introduction -- Part I. Blacks Outside Europe: Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean : -- 1. Portuguese Africa -- 2. Venice and the Oriental Mode -- 3. Weiditz and Costume Books -- 4. Mapping Africa -- 5. The Petits Voyages -- 6. The Depiction of Africa -- 7. The South American Scene -- 8. The Mediterranean Scene -- Part II. Black Africans in Europe : -- 9. The European Scene -- 10. From the Old to the New Testament: Toward Salvation -- 11. The Missionary Impulse -- 12. Opulent and Exotic Africa -- 13. The World of the Collector -- Conclusion: The Anthropology of the African -- --

Volume 3, part 3. From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : the eighteenth century: -- Introduction / David Bindman, with contributions from Bruce Boucher and Helen Weston -- 1. The Theater of Court and Church: Blacks as Figures of Fantasy / David Bindman, Bruce Boucher, and Helen Weston -- 2. Between Court and City: Fantasies in Transition / David Bindman, Bruce Boucher, and Helen Weston -- 3. Court and City: Fantasies of Domination / David Bindman and Helen Weston -- 4. The City Between Fantasy and Reality / David Bindman, Paul Kaplan, and Helen Weston -- 5. Africa and the Slave Trade / David Bindman, Charles Ford, and Helen Weston -- 6. The Slave Colonies / Charles Ford, Thomas Cummins, Rosalie Smith McCrea, and Helen Weston -- --

Volume 4, part 1. From the American Revolution to World War I : slaves and liberators: -- Introduction to the New Edition / David Bindman -- 1. The Atlantic Triangle -- 2. Philanthropic Conquest -- 3. Uncle Tom or the Freed Slave, 1852-1876 -- 4. Memorials-or the Glory of Empire -- --

Volume 4, part 2. From the American Revolution to World War I : Black models and White myths: -- Introduction to the New Edition / David Bindman -- 1. Studies / Hugh Honour -- 2. The Art of Observation / Hugh Honour -- 3. The Seductions of Slavery / Hugh Honour -- 4. The New Negro / Hugh Honour -- 5. Goya's Blacks / Victor Stoichita -- 6. Karl Briullov and the Russian Representation of Black Africans in the Age of Pushkin / Paul H. D. Kaplan -- --

Volume 5, part 1. The twentieth century : the impact of Africa: -- Introduction / David Bindman -- Part I. Photography, Popular Imagery, Anthropology, and Racial Theory : -- 1. Counteracting the Stereotype: Photography in the Nineteenth Century / Deborah Willis -- 2. Marketing Racism: Popular Imagery in the United States and Europe / Tanya Sheehan and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- 3. Visual Culture and the Occupation of the Rhineland / Vera Ingrid Grant -- 4. Anthropology and Photography (1910-1940) / Elizabeth Edwards -- 5. African Taxonomies: Displaying and Classifying Race / David Bindman -- Part II. Europe and the Construction of the "Primitive" : -- 6. Africa and Paris: The Art of Picasso and His Circle / Suzanne Preston Blier -- 7. Encounters with the Image of the Black: The German and French Avant-Garde (1905-1920) / Christian Weikop -- 8. Negrophilia, Josephine Baker, and 1920s Paris / Petrine Archer -- 9. Afrophilia and Afrophobia in Switzerland and Germany (1916-1938) / Christian Weikop -- 10. Painted Blacks and Radical Imagery in the Netherlands (1900-1940) / Esther Schreuder -- Part III. Beyond Europe: The Caribbean and Latin America : -- 11. The Image of the Black in Twentieth-century Anglo-Afro-Caribbean Art / Petrine Archer -- 12. The Image of the Black in Latin America / Dawn Ades -- 13. Négritude: Césaire, Lam, and Picasso / David Bindman.

In The 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called The Image of the Black in Western Art. Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent serves his historic term in office, her mission has been re-invigorated through the collaboration of Harvard University Press and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research to present new editions of the coveted five original books and the anticipated new volumes which shall complete the series. The completed set will include ten sumptuous books in five volumes with up-to-date introductions and more full-color illustrations, printed on high-quality art stock for books that will last a lifetime. This monumental publication offers expert commentary and a lavishly illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Hogarth to stunning new creations by contemporary black artists. Featuring thousands of beautiful, moving, and often little-known images of black people, including queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, children and gods, The Image of the Black in Western Art provides a treasury of masterpieces from four millennia--a testament to the black experience in the West and a tribute to art's enduring power to shape our common humanity. Volume II, Part 1, written largely by the noted French scholar Jean Devisse, has established itself as a classic in the field of medieval art. It surveys as never before the presence of black people, mainly mythical, in art from the early Christian era to the fourteenth century. The extraordinary transformation of Saint Maurice into a black African saint, the subject of many noble and deeply touching images, is a highlight of this volume. The new introduction by Paul Kaplan provides a fresh perspective on the image of the black in medieval European art and contextualizes the classic essays on the subject. --Book Jacket.