{"id":3112,"date":"2009-11-13T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2015-07-28T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:47:23","slug":"ape-to-apollo-aesthetics-and-the-idea-of-race-in-the-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Cornell University Press<\/a>
\n2002
\n264 pages
\n6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones
\nISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4<\/p>\n

David Bindman<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art
\nUniversity College London<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ape to Apollo<\/em> 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 \u201cvarieties\u201d are marked in such illustrations by exaggerated differences, with emphases on variations from the European ideal and on the characteristics that allegedly divided the races.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In surveying the idea of human variety before \u201crace\u201d was introduced by Linneaus<\/a> as a scientific category, David Bindman considers the work of many German and British thinkers, including J. F. Blumenbach<\/a>, Georg<\/a> and Johann Reinhold Forster<\/a>, and Immanuel Kant<\/a>, as well as Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon<\/a> and Pieter Camper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bindman believes that such representations, and the theories that supported them, helped give rise to the racism of the modern era. He writes, \u201cIt may be objected that some features of modern racism predate the Enlightenment<\/a>, and already existed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; certainly there was deep prejudice, but that, I would argue, is not the same as racism, which must have as a foundation a theory of race to justify the exercise of prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,459,8,17,394],"tags":[1147,1131,1140,1142,1145,1144,1141,1143,1146],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-carl-linneaus","tag-cornell-university-press","tag-david-bindman","tag-georg-forster","tag-georges-louis-leclerc-buffon","tag-immanuel-kant","tag-j-f-blumenbach","tag-johann-reinhold-forster","tag-pieter-camper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42042,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/42042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}