Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107357280
• Artikelnr.: 52942091

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: envisioning slave portraiture Angela Rosenthal and Agnes
Lugo-Ortiz; Part I. Visibility and Invisibility: 1. Slavery and the
possibilities of portraiture Marcia Pointon; 2. Subjectivity and slavery in
portraiture: from courtly to commercial societies David Bindman; 3. Looking
for Scipio Moorhead: on the portrayal of an 'African painter' in
revolutionary North America Eric Slauter; Part II. Slave Portraiture,
Colonialism, and Modern Imperial Culture: 4. Three gentlemen from
Esmeralda: a portrait fit for a king Tom Cummins; 5. Metamorphoses of the
self: slave portraiture and the case of Juan de Pareja in imperial Spain
Carmen Fracchia; 6. Of sailors and slaves: portraiture, property, and the
trials of circum-Atlantic subjectivities, c.1750-1830 Geoff Quilley; 7.
Between violence and redemption: slave portraiture in early plantation Cuba
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz; Part III. Subjects to Scientific and Ethnographic
Knowledge: 8. Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child (1641): ethnographic
portraiture, slavery, and the New World subject Rebecca P. Brienen; 9.
Embodying African knowledge in colonial Surinam: two William Blake
engravings in Stedman's 1796 narrative Susan Scott Parrish; 10. Exquisite
empty shells: sculpted slave portraits and the French ethnographic turn
James Smalls; Part IV. Facing Abolition: 11. Who is the subject?
Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist's Portrait d'une Négresse Viktoria
Schmidt-Linsenhoff; 12. The many faces of Toussaint Loverture Helen Weston;
13. Cinqué: a heroic portrait for the abolitionist cause Toby
Chieffo-Reidway; 14. The Intrepid Mariner Simão: visual histories of
blackness in the Luso-Atlantic at the end of the slave trade Daryle
Williams.