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.

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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.