Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today

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Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to TodayAn ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals

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