Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
- ISBN-10
- 1107345162
- ISBN-13
- 9781107345164
- Category
- Portraits
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Authors
- Angela Rosenthal, Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz
Description
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on t.
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