Black bodies, white gold : art, cotton, and commerce in the Atlantic world /
Arabindan-Kesson, Anna,
Black bodies, white gold : art, cotton, and commerce in the Atlantic world / Anna Arabindan-Kesson. - xviii, 300 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-284) and index.
Circuits of cotton -- Market aesthetics: color, cloth, and commerce -- Of cision and value: landscape and labor after slavery -- Material histories and speculative conditions -- Coda: a material with memory.
"Using cotton-a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism-as a paradigm, Black Bodies, White Gold presents new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth century Atlantic world. It models an art historical framework that centralizes the histories of the Black diaspora to nineteenth-century cultural production"--
9781478011927 9781478014065
2020030916
Cotton in art.
Slavery in art.
Cotton trade--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.
Slavery--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.
Cotton growing--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.
African diaspora in art.
Atlantic Ocean Region--Commerce--History--19th century.
N8217.C64 / A733 2021
704.0396
Black bodies, white gold : art, cotton, and commerce in the Atlantic world / Anna Arabindan-Kesson. - xviii, 300 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-284) and index.
Circuits of cotton -- Market aesthetics: color, cloth, and commerce -- Of cision and value: landscape and labor after slavery -- Material histories and speculative conditions -- Coda: a material with memory.
"Using cotton-a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism-as a paradigm, Black Bodies, White Gold presents new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth century Atlantic world. It models an art historical framework that centralizes the histories of the Black diaspora to nineteenth-century cultural production"--
9781478011927 9781478014065
2020030916
Cotton in art.
Slavery in art.
Cotton trade--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.
Slavery--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.
Cotton growing--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--19th century.
African diaspora in art.
Atlantic Ocean Region--Commerce--History--19th century.
N8217.C64 / A733 2021
704.0396