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Witnessing Slavery
- Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition
Engelsk Hardback

Witnessing Slavery

- Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition
Engelsk Hardback

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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. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781913107055
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1913107051
Udg. Dato:
10 sep 2019
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
276mm
Forlag:
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Oplagsdato:
10 sep 2019
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