The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 1

Jean Vercoutter; Jean Leclant,; Frank M. Snowden Jr.; Jehan Desange; Ladislas Bugner [Editor]

William Morrow and Company, 1976

Volume 1, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Staining to edge (text unaffected). xi, 352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. 

"From ancient Egypt through the present time, blacks have depicted in art, and these depictions have ranged from the nobility of the reserve head of an African princess from the court of Cheops to the emaciated black youths from the Hellenistic period. The Image of the Black in Western Art traces the development of an Occidental image of the black and through it delineates the iconography of the black as king, slave, and saint. The subject under study is an Occidental cultural phenomenon manifested in the plastic arts of forty centuries." - William Morrow and Company 

This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.