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Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / Kay Dian Kriz.
- 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, ©2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Description
- ix, 284 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Summary
- "This book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was the most active and profitable. In a wide-ranging study of scientific illustrations, scenes of daily life, caricatures, and landscape imagery, Dian Kriz analyses the visual culture of refinement that accompanied the brutal process in which African slaves transformed 'rude' sugar cane into pure white crystals. These works variously imagine Britain's Caribbean colonies as curious, frightening, deadly, pleasurable and even funny for viewers on both sides of the Atlantic."--Jacket
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- 1800-1900
- 1900-2000
- Geschichte 1700-1840
- Social classes in art
- Black people in art
- Slavery in art
- Art, British > 18th century
- Art, British > 19th century
- Classes sociales dans l'art
- Personnes noires dans l'art
- Art britannique > 18e siècle
- Art britannique > 19e siècle
- 20.21 iconographic themes
- Art, British
- Druckgrafik
- Indien Motiv
- Karikatur
- Kunst
- Sklave Motiv
- Westindien Motiv
- Slavery
- Plantations
- Visual arts
- Sugar trade in art $9 lat
- West Indies, British > In art
- Antilles britanniques > Dans l'art
- West Indies > British West Indies
- Großbritannien
- British colonies
- Västindien > i konsten
- Westindien (Motiv)
- Genre/Form
- Art
- Note
- "Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780300140620
- 0300140622
- LCCN
- 2008011986
- OCLC
- 191243100
- SCSB-12137294
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library