Art and Race: The African (Up) Against the Enlightenment’s Eye pins ISBN 978-1-60606-899-1

ISBN 978-1-60606-899-1

this book is an engaging exploration of Clara Peeters’s contributions to the genre of still-life painting

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Rembrandt van Rijn

Recently restored at the Louvre’s state-of-the-art facilities

Art and Race: The African (Up) Against the Enlightenment’s Eye pins ISBN 978-1-60606-899-1Available March 2027 Anne Lafont Translated by Anna Cummings, with Judith G. Miller This groundbreaking study investigates the close and paradoxical relationship of art and race during the Enlightenment. In this text, French art historian Anne Lafont examines the complexities and contradictions in Enlightenment era ideas about race, focusing on the figurations of Africans and other people of color. Through studies of a wide range of eighteenth century