This anthology of art, critical writings, poetry, and prose on and around the subject of Sarah, or Saartjie, Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” has been a long time coming. The contributions in this collection are scholarly and lyrical, historical and refl exive, capturing the spirit of a new body of literature about Baartman. In 1991, I fi rst read an article in the Village Voice titled “Venus Envy”1 by Lisa Jones, and since then I have been intrigued with Baartman’s life story. I began to create artwork about her and the notion of beauty in an effort to fi nd a way to expose this story to a wider audience. This book began as a dialogue with artist and writer Carla Williams, my coauthor on The Black Female Body in Photography: A Photographic History, and with a number of friends and colleagues who were researching, writing, and making art about the body, all of whom had referenced Baartman in their work. [download]
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