Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840

Name: Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840
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ISBN: 9780300140620

ISBN-10: 0300140622

ISBN-13: 9780300140620

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kay Dian Kriz, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Staff

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This highly original 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 most active and profitable. In a wide-ranging study of scientific illustrations, scenes of daily life, caricatures, and landscape imagery, Kay Dian Kriz analyzes the visual culture of refinement that accompanied the brutal process by which African slaves transformed 0;rude1; sugar cane into pure white crystals. In these works refinement is usually associated with the metropole, and 0;rudeness1; with the colonies. Many artists capitalized on those characteristics of rudeness-animality, sensuality, and savagery-that…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.79" wide x 1.04" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English




Assessing the culture of refinement



Curiosities, commodities, and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamaica



Marketing mulatresses 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


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