عنوان

Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world /

(Number (ISBN

110700439X (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781107004399 (hardback)

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Title Proper

Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 468 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color) ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: envisioning slave portraiture / Angela Rosenthal and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz -- I. Visibility and invisibility -- Slavery and the possibilities of portraiture / Marcia Pointon -- Subjectivity and slavery in portraiture: from courtly to commercial societies / David Bindman -- Looking for Scipio Moorhead: an "African painter" in revolutionary North America / Eric Slauter -- II. Slave portraiture, colonialism, and modern imperial culture -- Three gentlemen from Esmeralda: a portrait fit for a king / Tom Cummins -- Metamorphoses of the self in early-modern Spain: slave portraiture and the case of Juan de Pareja / Carmen Fracchia -- Of sailors and slaves: portraiture, property, and the trials of circum-Atlantic subjectivities, c. 1750-1830 / Geoff Quilley -- Between violence and redemption: slave portraiture in early plantation Cuba / Agnes Lugo-Ortiz -- III. Subjects to scientific and ethnographic knowledge -- Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child (1641): ethnographic portraiture, slavery, and the New World subject / Rebecca P. Brienen -- Embodying African knowledge in colonial Surinam: two William Blake engravings in Stedman's 1796 Narrative / Susan Scott Parrish -- Exquisite empty shells: sculpted slave portraits and the French ethnographic turn / James Smalls -- IV. Facing Abolition -- Who is the subject? Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist's Portrait d'une Ne'gresse / Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff -- The many faces of Toussaint Loverture / Helen Weston -- Cinqué: a heroic portrait for the abolitionist cause / Toby Chieffo-Reidway -- The Intrepid Mariner Simão: visual histories of blackness in the Luso-Atlantic at the end of the slave trade / Daryle Williams

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Text of Note

"Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"--

Blacks in art

Portraits

Slavery-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History

Slavery in art

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes I

Rosenthal, Angela

Date of Transaction

20160712084116.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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