{"product_id":"ape-to-apollo-aesthetics-and-the-idea-of-race-in-the-18th-century-picturing-history-series-9780801440854","title":"Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century (Picturing History Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eApe to Apollo 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 \"varieties\" 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. In surveying the idea of human variety before \"race\" was introduced by Linneaus as a scientific category  David Bindman considers the work of many German and British thinkers  including J. F. Blumenbach  Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster  and Immanuel Kant  as well as Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and Pieter Camper. Bindman believes that such representations  and the theories that supported them  helped give rise to the racism of the modern era. He writes  \"It may be objected that some features of modern racism predate the Enlightenment  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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651876282421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801440858","price":171.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801440854.jpg?v=1781843545","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ape-to-apollo-aesthetics-and-the-idea-of-race-in-the-18th-century-picturing-history-series-9780801440854","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}