Black beauty: Aesthetics, stylization, politics

Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-180

  Tate, Shirley Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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