Landscape of slavery : the plantation in American art /
Approaching their topic through the lenses of art history and social history, the authors explore a largely unexamined and provocative genre of American art: plantation paintings. The 83 color plates, 19 black-and-white illustrations, and six essays present both the images and a background for under...
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
©2008.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Approaching their topic through the lenses of art history and social history, the authors explore a largely unexamined and provocative genre of American art: plantation paintings. The 83 color plates, 19 black-and-white illustrations, and six essays present both the images and a background for understanding them in the context of slavery and race relations in the United States. |
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| Item Description: | Published to accompany an exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Va., the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Ga. "Published in cooperation with the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association." |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781570037191 (cloth : alk. paper) 1570037191 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781570037207 (pbk : alk. paper) 1570037205 (pbk : alk. paper) |