Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement
Subtitle: picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840
By: Kay Dian Kriz.
Publisher: Yale University Press; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Paul Mellon Centre
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780300140620
Subjects: Social classes in art; Blacks in art; Slavery in art; Art, British -- 18th century; Art, British -- 19th century; West Indies, British -- In art
Genres: In art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement; title: Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's "Natural history of Jamaica"; title: Marketing mulàtresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian scenes; title: The physiognomy and pathology of "black humor" : caricature and the West Indies on the eve of abolition; title: Making a black folk : Belisario's sketches of character and the performance of "race" and place; title: Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840.