LEADER 04901nam 2200889 450 001 9910794022503321 005 20220207214514.0 010 $a0-271-08820-6 010 $a0-271-08822-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271088228 035 $a(CKB)4100000011216033 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224566 035 $a(DE-B1597)583707 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271088228 035 $a(OCoLC)1253314086 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011216033 100 $a20200930d2020 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContraband guides $erace, transatlantic culture, and the arts in the Civil War era /$fPaul H. D. Kaplan 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (313 pages) 311 0 $a0-271-08385-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Representations of People of Color in Nineteenth-Century American Accounts of Italian Travel --$t2 ?A Mulatto Sculptor from New Orleans? --$t3 ?The Black Man To-day Means Liberty? --$t4 ?Something American? --$t5 Old Masters --$t6 Contraband Guide --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a ?contraband guide,? a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil War. By means of this and similar case studies, Paul H. D. Kaplan documents the ways in which American cultural encounters with Europe and its venerable artistic traditions influenced nineteenth-century concepts of race in the United States.Americans of the Civil War era were struck by the presence of people of color in European art and society, and American artists and authors, both black and white, adapted and transformed European visual material to respond to the particular struggles over the identity of African Americans. Taking up the work of both well- and lesser-known artists and writers?such as the travel writings of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, the paintings of German American Emanuel Leutze, the epistolary exchange between John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, newspaper essays written by Frederick Douglass and William J. Wilson, and the sculpture of freed slave Eugène Warburg?Kaplan lays bare how racial attitudes expressed in mid-nineteenth-century American art were deeply inflected by European traditions. By highlighting the contributions people of black African descent made to the fine arts in the United States during this period, along with the ways in which they were represented, Contraband Guides provides a fresh perspective on the theme of race in Civil War?era American art. It will appeal to art historians, to specialists in African American studies and American studies, and to general readers interested in American art and African American history. 606 $aAfrican American art$xEuropean influences 606 $aAfrican American art$y19th century 606 $aArt, American$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans in art$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArt and race$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBlack people in art$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aAbraham Lincoln. 610 $aAdoration of the Magi. 610 $aAfrican American. 610 $aAfro-European. 610 $aBilly Lee. 610 $aCharles Eliot Norton. 610 $aCivil War. 610 $aEmanuel Leutze. 610 $aEugène Warburg. 610 $aFrederick Douglass. 610 $aGeorge Washington. 610 $aHarriet Beecher Stowe. 610 $aJacopo Tintoretto. 610 $aJohn Hay. 610 $aJohn Ruskin. 610 $aJoshua Bowen Smith. 610 $aMark Twain. 610 $aNeoclassical sculpture. 610 $aPaolo Veronese. 610 $aPierre Soulé. 610 $aRace. 610 $aSlavery. 610 $aTransatlantic. 610 $aWilliam Cooper Nell. 610 $aWilliam Dean Howells. 610 $aWilliam J. Wilson. 615 0$aAfrican American art$xEuropean influences. 615 0$aAfrican American art 615 0$aArt, American 615 0$aAfrican Americans in art$xHistory 615 0$aArt and race$xHistory 615 0$aBlack people in art$xHistory 676 $a704.0396073 700 $aKaplan$b Paul H. D$g(Paul Henry Daniel),$f1952-$01526961 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794022503321 996 $aContraband guides$93769415 997 $aUNINA