The General Editors

David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

The Contributors

Dawn Ades
Petrine Archer-Straw
Bruce Boucher
Ladislas Bugner*
Adrienne Childs
Jean Marie Courtès*
Tom Cummins
Karen C.C. Dalton
Jehan Desanges*
Jean Devisse*
Elizabeth Edwards
Ruth Fine
Charles Ford
Jacqueline Francis
Hugh Honour
Paul H.D. Kaplan
Joseph Leo Koerner
Elmer Kolfin
Jean Leclant*
Jean Michel Massing
Rosalie Smith McCrea
Dominique de Menil*
Kobena Mercer
Michel Mollat*
Richard Powell
Jill Lloyd Esther Schreuder
Frank M. Snowden, Jr.*
Joaneath Spicer
Victor Stoichita
Jeremy Tanner
Jean Vercoutter*
Helen Weston
Deborah Willis

* Indicates a contributor from the original editions.

About the Books

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, as well as an additional five volumes.

News

Cover of Apollo magazine Apollo, the authoritative magazine for art collectors, has published two heavily illustrated articles on The Image of the Black in Western Art, with accompanying slideshows.