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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kim, Linda
Titre(s) : Race experts [Texte imprimé] : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of mankind / Linda Kim
Publication : Lincoln : University of Nebraska press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xx, 395 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Lien à la collection : Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index
"In 'Race Experts' Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by
sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the 'Races of Mankind' series created for the Chicago
Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé
of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum
exhibits. She was nonetheless commissioned by the Field Museum to make a series of
life-size sculptures for the museum's new racial exhibition, which became the largest
exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions
ever undertaken by a single artist. Hoffman's 'Races of Mankind' exhibit was realized
as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual
mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar
America. Kim explores how the artist brought scientific understandings of race and
the everyday racial attitudes of museum visitors together in powerful and productive
friction. The exhibition compelled the artist to incorporate not only the expertise
of racial science and her own artistic training but also the popular ideas about race
that ordinary Americans brought to the museum. Kim situates the 'Races of Mankind'
exhibit at the juncture of these different forms of racial expertise and examines
how the sculptures represented the messy resolutions between them. 'Race Experts'
is a compelling story of ideological contradiction and accommodation within the racial
practices of American museums, artists, and audiences." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Hoffman, Malvina (1887-1966)
Art et anthropologie -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Bronzes -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
730.92 (23e éd.) = Sculpture et arts connexes - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781496201850. - ISBN 149620185X. - ISBN 9781496208033 (erroné) (epub). - ISBN
9781496208040 (erroné) (mobi). - ISBN 9781496208057 (erroné) (pdf)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45569724c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45569724
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Racial know-how : expertise versus common sense ; Mediations : art in the natural
history museum ; Racial portraiture : between typologies and common sense ; Racial
homelands : popular geography and local races ; Micro-expertise : passing for Indian,
passing for white
