عنوان

Race experts :

(Number (ISBN

1496208056

(Number (ISBN

9781496208057

Erroneous ISBN

149620185X

Erroneous ISBN

9781496201850

Erroneous ISBN

9781496208033

Erroneous ISBN

9781496208040

Title Proper

Race experts :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's (start italics) Races of mankind (end italics) /

First Statement of Responsibility

Linda Kim.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lincoln :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Nebraska Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xx, 395 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index.

Text of Note

Racial know-how : expertise versus common sense -- Mediations : art in the natural history museum -- Racial portraiture : between typologies and commonsense -- Racial homelands : popular geography and local races -- Micro-expertise : passing for Indian, passing for white.

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Text of Note

"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

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctv21ssq8

Title

Race experts.

International Standard Book Number

9781496201850

Hoffman, Malvina,1887-1966-- Criticism and interpretation.

Hoffman, Malvina,1887-1966., Races of mankind.

Hoffman, Malvina,1887-1966.

Art and anthropology-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Art and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Ethnology in art.

Figure sculpture, American-- 20th century.

Art and anthropology.

Art and society.

ART-- Sculpture & Installation.

Ethnology in art.

Figure sculpture, American.

United States.

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ART-- 015100

ART-- 026000

SOC-- 002010

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Kim, Linda

Date of Transaction

20200823035327.0

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[Book]

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