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Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840

Title
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / Kay Dian Kriz.
Author
Kriz, Kay Dian, 1945-
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Description
ix, 284 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
Subject
  • Social classes in art
  • Black people in art
  • Slavery in art
  • Art, British > 18th century
  • Art, British > 19th century
  • West Indies, British > In art
Note
  • "Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement -- Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamaica -- Marketing mulâtresses 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 -- Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840.
Call Number
Sc F 10-191
ISBN
  • 9780300140620 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300140622 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008011986
OCLC
191243100
Author
Kriz, Kay Dian, 1945-
Title
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / Kay Dian Kriz.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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Sc F 10-191
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