Races of mankind

Description:

"In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology display called the Races of Mankind. In this exceptional study, Marianne Kinkel measures the colossal impact of the ninety-one bronze and stone sculptures on perceptions of race in twentieth-century visual culture, tracing their exhibition from their 1933 debut and nearly four decades at the Field Museum to numerous reuses, repackagings, reproductions, and publications that reached across the world"--Front flap of book jacket.

subjects: Exhibitions,  Field Museum of Natural History. Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall,  Women sculptors,  Biography,  Ethnicity in art,  Ethnological museums and collections,  Race in art,  American Bronze sculpture,  Race,  Ethnic groups,  Field Museum of Natural History,  Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.),  Ethnological collections,  Hoffman, malvina,  Women, united states, biography,  Sculpture, united states,  Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80119876 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n80119876

People: Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)

Places: United States,  Illinois,  Chicago

Times: 20th century