Fictions of Emancipation - Carpeaux`s Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered, Paperback/Wendy S. Walters

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images-this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art Author(s): Wendy S. Walters Number of pages: 140 Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 341 x 258 x 27 Cover type: Paperback / softback