9781478011927, 1478011920, 9781478014065, and 1478014067
Description:
xviii, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: Threads of Empire -- Circuits of Cotton -- Market Aesthetics: Color, Cloth, and Commerce -- Of Vision and Value: Landscape and Labor after Slavery -- Material Histories and Speculative Conditions -- A Material with Memory
Summary:
"Using cotton-a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism-as a paradigm, Black Bodies, White Gold presents new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth century Atlantic world. It models an art historical framework that centralizes the histories of the Black diaspora to nineteenth-century cultural production"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:
BGC Course Reserves
Call Number:
N8217.C64 A733 2021
Available
c.1
Course Name:
452. In Focus: (Re)Dressing the American Body I. BGC Spring 2023