{"product_id":"race-experts-linda-kim-9781496201850","title":"Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind","description":"2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA \u003cbr\u003e Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRace Experts \u003c\/i\u003eLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in \u003ci\u003eT​he \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaces of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Mestrovic, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. She was nonetheless commissioned by the Field Museum 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hoffman's \u003ci\u003eRaces of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar America. Kim explores how the artist brought scientific understandings of race and the everyday racial attitudes of museum visitors together in powerful and productive friction. The exhibition compelled the artist to incorporate not only the expertise of racial science and her own artistic training but also the popular ideas about race that ordinary Americans brought to the museum. Kim situates the \u003ci\u003eRaces of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e exhibit at the juncture of these different forms of racial expertise and examines how the sculptures represented the messy resolutions between them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace Experts\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling story of ideological contradiction and accommodation within the racial practices of American museums, artists, and audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 149620185X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496201850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019","brand":"Linda Kim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419514749183,"sku":"9781496201850","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b813e498-bbdb-49d1-a047-9e7d27ef60c8.jpg?v=1761512024","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-experts-linda-kim-9781496201850","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}