Art and Emancipation in Jamaica
Subtitle: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale Center for British Art)
Contributors: Tim Barringer (Editor); Gillian Forrester (Editor); Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press; Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press
Published: November 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780300116618
Subjects: The Arts: General Issues; Art And Society; Exhibition Catalogs; Art; History - General History; Jamaica; General; History - General; Caribbean & Latin American; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Art, British; Art, Jamaican; Exhibitions; Slavery in art
Description: Coinciding with the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, this multi-disciplinary volume chronicles the iconography of sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s.