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The World Before Racism: An Art Story

by Lisa Farrington , Jack Flam
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9798987228272
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Artist Book Foundation
  • Publisher Imprint: Artist Book Foundation
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 120
  • Original Price: USD 50.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 726 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / African American & Black

The term racism is understood to mean that race is the principal determinant of specific human traits and capacities and that due to racial differences, one race is inherently superior to all others. Over time, racism has commonly referenced the notion that the White race is superior to all others, fostering prejudice and discrimination. In The Artist Book Foundation's forthcoming publication, The World Before Racism: An Art Story, author and art historian Lisa Farrington meticulously examines the intersection of art, history, and race, using original works of art as primary source materials to support her premise that racism is a construct, invented in the mid-1700s, to support the financial, political, and religious structures of European colonialism.

Using art from ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and the Roman Empire, through Medieval Europe and the colonization of the New World, to the art of the present day--sources that cannot be easily altered, edited, or selectively trans�lated--Farrington expertly examines the intricate interplay between the Black and White races, how they saw and understood each other over the centuries. The artworks serve as powerful voices, precisely conveying the artist's intended messages. The goal of The World Before Racism is to present irrefutable evi�dence that the ideology of racism is unfounded, unsupported, unjustified, and destined to fade away like so many other archaic and erroneous ideas.

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