Oliver Wunsch’s essay ‘The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France’, published in the February 2025 issue of Art History has been awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies the 2026 James L. Clifford Prize ⬇️

New post on Colonial Networks: Oliver Wunsch writes about "Fleuriau's Skin" www.colonialnetworks.org?p=849

I have a new article in the current issue of Art History. It’s about how audiences in 18th-century France could admire Black people in art while denigrating them in life, believing that art had uniquely ameliorating effects. academic.oup.com/arthistory/a...

The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France

Abstract. Audiences in eighteenth-century France felt little compunction about admiring African people in art while denigrating them in life. They reconcil

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