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An examination of 'racial science' in the 19th and early 20th century, and how art was influenced by it.
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01-September-2023
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'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with particular concentration on attitudes toward and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. He argues that behind all racial ideas is the belief that outward appearance - and especially skull shape, as studied in the pseudoscience of phrenology - can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races. The book considers many aspects of these beliefs, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; Darwin, race and aesthetics; the purported 'Mediterranean race'; the visual aspects of eugenics; and the racial politics of Emil Nolde.

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    ISBN-13
    9781789146967
    Author
    David Bindman
    Publisher
    Reaktion Books
    Published
    01-September-2023
    Format
    Hardback
    Pages
    320

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    'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with particular concentration on attitudes toward and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. He argues that behind all racial ideas is the belief that outward appearance - and especially skull shape, as studied in the pseudoscience of phrenology - can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races. The book considers many aspects of these beliefs, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; Darwin, race and aesthetics; the purported 'Mediterranean race'; the visual aspects of eugenics; and the racial politics of Emil Nolde.

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