African Venice: A Guide to Art, Culture and People - Paperback
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African Venice: A Guide to Art, Culture and People
African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespeare's Othello, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, and the remarkable visibility of African an...
Paul Kaplan is Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the author of Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era, also published by Penn State University Press and The Rise of the Black Magus in Western Art, and a contributor to The Image of the Black in Western Art. He served as Project Scholar for Fred Wilson's Speak of Me as I Am, a...
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