FREE BOOK! Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth Century Britain Yale Center for
FREE BOOK! Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth Century Britain Yale Center for British Art, 2014 READ online or DOWNLOAD pdf more FREE BOOKS from lascasbookshelf.tumblr.com ||| Publisher’s Blurb ||| The rise of the British Empire during the eighteenth century, fueled by enslaved labor on plantations in the North Atlantic world, contributed to a period of economic and cultural growth in Britain. It also brought unprecedented numbers of Africans and people of African and African-Caribbean descent, both enslaved and free, to the British mainland. Figures of Empire explored the impact of these developments on the most ubiquitous artistic genre of the time: the portrait. This booklet accompanied the exhibition Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain in 2014. The exhibition featured more than sixty paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative objects. ||| Contents ||| What is a portrait? A note on terminology Slavery,empire and portraiture Portraits and conversations America and British abolitionism Reynolds’ models Staging indentities Portraits in books, books as portraits Timeline Further reading -- source link
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