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Hiding
in the back of a crowded market scene, serving hot chocolate to an excitable
aristocratic lady or bearing a jewelled vessel of gifts for the Christ
child, you will find a black face.
The images of black people in European Art help to trace the journey of the African Diaspora from their homelands into Europe. They are evidence of another hidden history, and seen together, they reflect the complexity of black representation. All images of black people are positive and important. Every page, moor’s head, slave, market seller, acrobat, clown or king is a document of an ideology or presence, and therefore makes them significant to our reshaping of black heritage, culture and identity. ..... more |
William
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