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In Race Experts Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in The Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Mestrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. She was nonetheless commissioned by the Field Museum to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum's new racial exhibition, which became the largest e

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Author

Linda Kim; Project Muse

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press (Mare Nostrum)

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496208033

Category

social science

Subjects

Art, Science, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-25