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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of...
Our warmest thanks again go to Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, and to the Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas, for allowing us to use the materials commissioned under the auspices of the Foundation. We are also grateful to all the authors—those who began work on their contributions in the early 1990s, and those who came to the project more...
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Our warmest thanks again go to Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, and to the Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas, for allowing us to use the materials commissioned under the auspices of the Foundation. We are also grateful to all the authors—those who began work on their contributions in the early 1990s, and those who came to the project more recently—for their patience and the enthusiasm they have brought to their tasks in the midst of often punishing professional demands on their time.
We must also thank again most warmly our colleagues at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, especially Sheldon Cheek, senior curatorial associate, and Vera Grant, executive director, who have both worked tirelessly to bring the whole series to a successful conclusion, and Joanne Kendall. We would like to thank Dean Henry Rosovsky for establishing the conditions under which the Image Archive could be housed at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard, and President Neil Rudenstine for fulfilling those conditions and overseeing the moving of the archive from the Menil Foundation in Houston to Cambridge. We would also like to thank President Lawrence Summers for the generous space in which the archive and its library are housed within the Du Bois Institute in Harvard Square.
As editors we have found it a huge pleasure working with Sharmila Sen and her wonderfully enthusiastic colleagues at Harvard University Press—Ian Stevenson, Tim Jones, Annamarie Why, Jill Breitbarth, Eric Mulder, Adriana Kirilova, Ann Twombly, Greg Kornbluh, Abby Mumford, and John Walsh, as well as Liz Duvall, Ken Krugh, Kevin Krugh, and Cheryl Lincoln at Technologies ‘N Typography—who have worked tirelessly to match and even surpass the high level of production set by the earlier volumes.
We would also like to thank Zooid Pictures Limited, especially Richard Philpott and Cristina Lombardo, who took on the enormous task of gathering the photographs for all the volumes and obtaining permissions for each one. They did this with great efficiency and good humor, and we are grateful to them.
The existence of this volume owes everything to the late Dominique de Menil, who died on the last day of 1997; she was a guiding spirit to us all. Ladislas Bugner brought his immense knowledge of the subject to the assistance of the authors in the early stages of the work, but Karen Dalton, herself a pioneering scholar in the field, has been instrumental in seeing the work through to completion. Francesco Pellizzi was also much involved in getting the volume off the ground.
Every one of the many people the authors have consulted has been intrigued by the project and has been extremely helpful. Among the many to whom we are indebted, we would like to single out David Alexander, Brian Allen, Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Philippe Bordes, Frances Carey, Carlo A. Célius, the late Marcel Chatillon, Alain Chevalier, Elizabeth Fairman, the late John Fleming, Celina Fox, David Freedberg, Gene Garthwaite, Florence Gauthier, Tom Gretton, Antony Griffiths, Katherine Hart, Craig Hartley, Andrew Hemingway, Hugh Honour, Shirley Jones, Anne Lafont, Elizabeth McGrath, Patrick Noon, Sheila O’Connell, Lionello Puppi, Adrian Randolph, the late Angela Rosenthal, David Solkin, James Walvin, Sir Christopher White, and Thomas R. Wolejko.
DAVID BINDMAN, KAREN C. C. DALTON, AND
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR
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