November 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I
From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire
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November 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II
From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery”
Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood
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November 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II
From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery”
Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World
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November 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III
From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition
Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
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November 2011
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III
From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition
Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond
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November 2011
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III
From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition
Part 3: The Eighteenth Century
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May 2012
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV
From the American Revolution to World War I
Part 1: Slaves and Liberators
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May 2012
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV
From the American Revolution to World War I
Part 2: Black Models and White Myths
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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.