Fraternity
Nicholas Penny, 8 March 1990
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. IV, Parts I-II: From the American Revolution to World War One
by Hugh Honour.
Harvard, 379 pp., £34.95, April 1989,9780939594177 Show More
by Hugh Honour.
Harvard, 379 pp., £34.95, April 1989,
Primitive Art in Civilised Places
by Sally Price.
Chicago, 147 pp., £15.95, December 1989,0 226 68063 0 Show More
by Sally Price.
Chicago, 147 pp., £15.95, December 1989,
The Return of Cultural Treasures
by Jeanette Greenfield.
Cambridge, 361 pp., £32.50, February 1990,0 521 33319 9 Show More
by Jeanette Greenfield.
Cambridge, 361 pp., £32.50, February 1990,
“... revision of Western attitudes to blacks’. Just how true this is has been demonstrated by Sally Price in Primitive Art in Civilised Places, which examines the assumptions behind the collecting and display of such art in the Western world: the idea that it is supposed to ‘speak directly’ to the child or savage in all of us; the belief that any ... ”