Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

by David Bindman

Book Overview

Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth century of the idea of race as it shaped and was shaped by the idea of aesthetics. Twelve full-color illustrations and sixty-five black-and-white illustrations from publications and artists of the day allow the reader to see eighteenth-century concepts of race translated into images. Human varieties are marked in such illustrations by exaggerated differences, with emphases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440858
• ISBN13: 9780801440854
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher