The Aesthetic Craze

Publisher Currier & Ives American

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This print mocks a popular style of interior design and dress championed by Oscar Wilde and comes from the Currier & Ives's Darktown series where offensive racial stereotypes are applied to Black (African American) people. It is hoped that by studying the context that produced such images, today's viewers will work to minimize discrimination, stereotyping and intolerance.

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