Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / / edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 468 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 704.9/49306362
• Soggetto topico: Slavery in art; Portraits; Slavery - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Black people in art
• Classificazione: HIS010000
• Persona (resp. second.): Lugo-OrtizAgnes I.; RosenthalAngela
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world
• ISBN: 1-107-22707-0; 1-107-35728-4; 1-107-34879-X; 1-107-53375-9; 1-107-34516-2; 1-107-34766-1; 1-139-02184-2; 1-107-34141-8; 1-107-34391-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790616403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II