Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions - Paperback

by Albert Alhadeff (Author)

This book examines Théodore Géricault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa.

Author Biography

Albert Alhadeff is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Colorado Boulder.