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Race experts : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of mankind / Linda Kim.

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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 protege of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Mestro...

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Main Author: Kim, Linda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Hoffman, Malvina, > 1885-1966. > Races of mankind.
Hoffman, Malvina, > 1885-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Figure sculpture, American > 20th century.
Ethnology in art.
Art and anthropology > United States > History > 20th century.
Ethnology > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Art and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Hoffman, Malvina, > 1885-1966.
Race in art.
Bronze sculpture, American.
Art and anthropology.
Art and society.
Figure sculpture, American.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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