Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / Kay Dian Kriz.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008Description: ix, 284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: 9780300140620 (cloth : alk. paper); 0300140622 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Social classes in art | Blacks in art | Slavery in art | Art, British -- 18th century | Art, British -- 19th century | West Indies, British -- In artDDC classification: 709.086/2 LOC classification: N8214.5.W38 | K75 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | Book review (H-Net) | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Technical section | N 8214.5 .W38K75 2008 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 35822 |
"Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.
Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement -- Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamaica -- Marketing mulâtresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian scenes -- The physiognomy and pathology of "black humor" : caricature and the West Indies on the eve of abolition -- Making a black folk : Belisario's Sketches of character -- Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840.
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