Black bodies, white gold : art, cotton, and commerce in the Atlantic world / Anna Arabindan-Kesson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Arabindan-Kesson, Anna, author.

Series:

• e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cotton in art.
• Slavery in art.
• Cotton trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.
• Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.
• Cotton growing--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.
• African diaspora in art.
• Commerce.
• History.
• Cotton growing.
• Slavery.
• Cotton trade.
• Atlantic Ocean Region--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Atlantic Ocean Region.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 300 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

System Details:

• Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
• data file

Summary:

"Anna Arabindan-Kesson examines how cotton became a subject for nineteenth-century art by tracing the symbolic and material correlations between cotton and Black people in British and American visual culture."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Circuits of Cotton
• Market Aesthetics: Color, Cloth, and Commerce
• Of Vision and Value: Landscape and Labor after Slavery
• Material Histories and Speculative Conditions
• A Material with Memory.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. Black bodies, white gold.

ISBN:

• 9781478021377
• 1478021373

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.