Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / Kay Dian Kriz.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press : c2008.
Physical Description:
ix, 284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement -- Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's "Natural history of Jamaica" -- Marketing mulà€tresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian scenes -- The physiognomy and pathology of "black humor" : caricature and the West Indies on the eve of abolition -- Making a black folk : Belisario's sketches of character and the performance of "race" and place -- Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840.
Subject Terms:
West Indies, British -- In art. | Social classes in art. | Black people in art. | Slavery in art. | Art, British -- 18th century. | Art, British -- 19th century.