Anthony Van Dyck and the trope of the black attendant
This article examines Van Dyck’s use of the motif of the African attendant in his extant oeuvre in order to establish patterns and strategies of representation of the racial other. It reveals the artist’s paternalistic interpretation of a trope that was aesthetically informed by examples set by Tit...
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| Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Acta Academica |
| Online Access: | http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1510 |