Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.

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By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a pre

This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history,