The Image of the Black in Western Art: the hidden history and its legacy
Artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, author Aminatta Forna, David Bindman, UCL, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, discuss the long history of images and objects depicting black people and celebrate the monumental publication, The Image of the Black in Western Art (Harvard University Press). Chaired by Bonnie Greer, British Museum Trustee.
This event took place on 25 February 2011.
Image: Théodore Géricault, Boxers, lithograph, 1818.










