Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman

Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Black cloth boards, pale gray dust jacket with b/w illustration. XIV, 276 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations. 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. -book jacket. (Inventory #: 130453)