Menil Foundation L'Image du Noir dans L'Art Occidental, Vol. II tomes 1&2
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Author: Devisse, Jean
Title: L'Image du Noir dans L'Art Occidental: Des Premiers Siècles Chrétiens aux "Grandes Découvertes"
Place Published: [Fribourg]
Publisher:Office du Livre
Date Published: [1979]
Description:
2 volumes. Text in French. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Cloth, pictorial jackets, cardboard slipcases. First French Edition.
Results of the Menil Foundations multi-decade research project tracing "the development of an Occidental image of the black" as king, slave, and saint. Synoptic in scope, the complete study covers 40 centuries of iconography! The present lot comprises the French edition of Volume II, tomes 1&2: De la Menace Démoniaque à l'Incarnation de la Sainteté (From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood) [with] Les Africains dans l'Ordonnance Chrétienne du Monde - XIVe-XVIe Siècle" (Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World - Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century).
Heading:
Author: Devisse, Jean
Title: L'Image du Noir dans L'Art Occidental: Des Premiers Siècles Chrétiens aux "Grandes Découvertes"
Place Published: [Fribourg]
Publisher:Office du Livre
Date Published: [1979]
Description:
2 volumes. Text in French. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Cloth, pictorial jackets, cardboard slipcases. First French Edition.
Results of the Menil Foundations multi-decade research project tracing "the development of an Occidental image of the black" as king, slave, and saint. Synoptic in scope, the complete study covers 40 centuries of iconography! The present lot comprises the French edition of Volume II, tomes 1&2: De la Menace Démoniaque à l'Incarnation de la Sainteté (From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood) [with] Les Africains dans l'Ordonnance Chrétienne du Monde - XIVe-XVIe Siècle" (Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World - Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century).
