Race experts : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of mankind /
Kim, Linda,
Race experts : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of mankind / Linda Kim. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018] - xx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index.
In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. Nonetheless, the Field Museum commissioned her to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum's new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist.
9781496228222 (paperback)
2017044555
Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966. Races of mankind.
Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966 --Criticism and interpretation.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Ethnology in art.
Art and anthropology--History--United States--20th century.
Ethnology--Social aspects--United States x History--20th century.
Art and society--History--United States--20th century.
NB237.H55 / A74 2018
730.92
Race experts : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of mankind / Linda Kim. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018] - xx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index.
In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. Nonetheless, the Field Museum commissioned her to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum's new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist.
9781496228222 (paperback)
2017044555
Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966. Races of mankind.
Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966 --Criticism and interpretation.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Ethnology in art.
Art and anthropology--History--United States--20th century.
Ethnology--Social aspects--United States x History--20th century.
Art and society--History--United States--20th century.
NB237.H55 / A74 2018
730.92