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Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world
- Title
- Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1 to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 16-149 | Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- xix, 468 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQF 16-149
- ISBN
- 9781107004399 (hardback)
- 110700439X (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011036251
- OCLC
- 752249922
- Title
- Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes I.Rosenthal, Angela.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 16-149Sc F 14-76