TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Witnessing slavery : art and travel in the age of abolition
A1  - Thomas, Sarah, 1965 October 26- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London
PB  - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5573268
AB  - "A timely and original look at the role of the eyewitness account in the representation of slavery in British and European art. Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840. In addition to considering how the work of artists such as Agostino Brunias, James Hakewill, and Augustus Earle responded to abolitionist politics, Sarah Thomas examines the importance of the eyewitness account in endowing visual representations of transatlantic slavery with veracity. "Being there," indeed, became significant not only because of the empirical opportunities to document slave life it afforded but also because the imagery of the eyewitness was more credible than sketches and paintings created by the "armchair traveler" at home. Full of original insights that cast a new light on these highly charged images, this volume reconsiders how slavery was depicted within a historical context in which truth was a deeply contested subject."--
SN  - 978-1-913107-05-5 kovakantinen
SN  - 1913107051 kovakantinen
KW  - Slavery in art.
KW  - Slave trade in art.
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood in art.
KW  - Art, European : 18th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Art, European : 19th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Art : Political aspects : Europe : History : 18th century.
KW  - Art : Political aspects : Europe : History : 19th century.
KW  - Esclavage dans l'art.
KW  - Esclaves : Commerce : Dans l'art.
KW  - Esclavage.
KW  - Noirs dans l'art.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
KW  - Blacks in art.
KW  - Slavery.
ER  -