ISBN:
1861891407
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9781861897886
,
9781861891402
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Ape to Apollo
DDC:
305.8009033
Keywords:
Aesthetics, Modern 18th century
;
Race
;
Aesthetics, European 18th century
;
Ethnology History 18th century
;
Aesthetics, European ; 18th century
;
Aesthetics, Modern ; 18th century
;
Ethnology ; History ; 18th century
;
Race
;
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Abstract:
In Ape to Apollo, art historian David Bindman argues that ideas of beauty were from the beginning inseparable from race, as Europeans judged the civility and aesthetic capacity of other races by their appearance
Description / Table of Contents:
Ape to Apollo Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Human Variety, Race and Aesthetics; 1 Human Variety Before Race; 2 The Climate of the Soul; 3 Defining and Denying Race; 4 The Skull's Triumph; Epilogue; References; Select Bibliography; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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