Author: Academia.edu, ResearchGate

Abstract: »In chapter 6, “Sexing the Canvas: The Rape Narrative of the Black Female Body in Western History Paintings,” Indira Bailey discusses history paintings and the rape narrative for Black women. She analyzes both a painting by seventeenth-century Dutch artist Christiaen van Couwenbergh and art historians’ denial of the rape of Black women. She also discusses rape in the context of medical experiments on enslaved Black female bodies in Robert Thom’s painting of Dr. James Marion Sims. Bailey then turns the tables and looks at Black artists Faith Ringgold and Lisa Love Whittington, who offer a counternarrative to the myth of the lasciviousness of Black women—either by fighting back their captors or laying bare the psychological toll of rape on Black women.« (Source: Caldwell, Ellen C., et al. »Introduction: Gender Violence and Art History.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 16-17.)

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