Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840

Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 / Kay Dian Kriz.

Author/creator	Kriz, Kay Dian, 1945-
Other author/creator	Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Description	ix, 284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subject(s)	Social classes in art. Black people in art Slavery in art. Art, British--18th century. Art, British--19th century. West Indies, British--In art.

Contents	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.
General note	"Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.
LCCN	2008011986
ISBN	9780300140620 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0300140622 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	N8214.5.W38 K75 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold