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May 12, 2009
Barbara Thompson, ed. Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body Exh. cat. Hanover, N.H. and Seattle: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press, 2008. 376 pp.; 212 color ills.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (9780295987712)

Exhibition schedule: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 1–August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 10–December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, January 31–April 26, 2009

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.45

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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. When I Am Not Here/Estoy Allá (1996). Polaroid photograph. 20 x 24 in. Artist’s collection. Photograph courtesy of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.

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Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body was an attractive and smart show. The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, its second venue of three, offered a stunning introduction to the galleries from its entrance balcony where Allison Saar’s 2006 Cache—a life-sized, tin-clad nude figure in a fetal position held in place by a giant ball of wire—was draped across the floor beneath Baby Back, Renée Cox’s oversized blackout C-print...