Black milk : imagining slavery in the visual cultures of Brazil and America / Marcus Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Marcus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery in art.

Slave trade in art.

Art, American--18th century.

Art, American.

Art, Brazilian--18th century.

Art, Brazilian.

Art, American--19th century.

Art, Brazilian--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Black Milk' is the first in-depth analysis of the visual arts that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Exploring prints, photographs paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and ephemera, it will change everything we knew, or thought we knew, about the visual archive of Atlantic slavery.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Slavery and the Romantic Sketch: Brazilian Cornucopia, American Aporia; 2. Slavery, American Graphic Culture, and Print Satire; 3. Angelo Agostini and Brazilian Graphic Satires of Slavery; 4. Photography and Slavery in America and Brazil; 5. American Museums and the Representation of Slavery as Trauma; 6. Brazil, Slavery, and the Limits of Institutional Display from Lina Bo Bardi to Escrava Anastácia; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-927457-6

0-19-166947-4

OCLC:

856625722