UID:
almahu_9947414879302882
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 468 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139021845 (ebook)
Content:
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. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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envisioning slave portraiture /
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Visibility and invisibility --
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Slavery and the possibilities of portraiture /
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Subjectivity and slavery in portraiture :
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from courtly to commercial societies /
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Looking for Scipio Moorhead :
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an "African painter" in revolutionary North America /
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Slave portraiture, colonialism, and modern imperial culture --
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Three gentlemen from Esmeralda :
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a portrait fit for a king /
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Metamorphoses of the self in early-modern Spain :
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slave portraiture and the case of Juan de Pareja /
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Of sailors and slaves :
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portraiture, property, and the trials of circum-Atlantic subjectivities, c. 1750-1830 /
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Between violence and redemption :
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slave portraiture in early plantation Cuba /
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Subjects to scientific and ethnographic knowledge --
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Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child (1641) :
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ethnographic portraiture, slavery, and the New World subject /
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Embodying African knowledge in colonial Surinam :
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two William Blake engravings in Stedman's 1796 Narrative /
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Exquisite empty shells :
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sculpted slave portraits and the French ethnographic turn /
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Facing Abolition --
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Who is the subject?
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Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist's Portrait d'une Ne'gresse /
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The many faces of Toussaint Loverture /
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Cinqué :
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a heroic portrait for the abolitionist cause /
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The Intrepid Mariner Simão :
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visual histories of blackness in the Luso-Atlantic at the end of the slave trade /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107004399
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139021845
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