Contraband guides : race, transatlantic culture, and the arts in the Civil War era / Paul H. D. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in art--History--19th century.

African Americans in art.

Black people in art--History--19th century.

Black people in art.

Art, American--19th century.

Art, American.

African American art--19th century.

African American art.

African American art--European influences.

Art and race--History--19th century.

Art and race.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 300 pages : illustration (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Explores the theme of race in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture, focusing on how American concepts of race were intertwined with the ongoing cultural exchanges that Americans had with European artistic traditions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Representations of people of color in nineteenth-century American accounts of Italian travel

"A Mulatto sculptor from New Orleans" : Eugène Warburg in Europe, 1853-1859

"The black man to-day means liberty" : African American figures in the work of Emanuel Leutze

"Something American" : art and slavery in the correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton

Old masters : the Western tradition of the visual arts in African American culture in the Civil War era

Contraband guide : Mark Twain in race and the Renaissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271083858

0271083859

OCLC:

1121284596