Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)

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Challenges the conventional positioning of still life a ＆minor＊ genre in art history
Proposes a radical alternative to narratives of modernism that privilege speed and motion by revealing forms of stillness and still life at the heart of modern literature and visual culture
Provides the first study of still life to consider the genre across modern literature, visual cultures and dance
Uncovers connections and cultural exchange between networks of European and American artists including the Bloomsbury Group and Wallace Stevens