Overview

This sensitive and well-researched study provides a refreshing and original view of a highly contentious subject. Exploring the 18th Century debates upon race and aesthetics, Bindman delves into philosophy, art history and science. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking the origins of today's controversies over race and ideas of beauty.

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A valuable survey of a complex and extremely sensitive subject * <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> * This is by no means just a contribution to the history of art, but deserves to reach a much wider readership * <i>Apollo</i> *

a valuable survey of a complex and extremely sensitive subject Times Literary Supplement This is by no means just a contribution to the history of art, but deserves to reach a much wider readership Apollo

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David Bindman was Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London and Fellow of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He was author or editor of many books including Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century (Reaktion, 2002).

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