Black bodies, white gold : art, cotton, and commerce in the Atlantic world / Anna Arabindan-Kesson.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Description: xviii, 300 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781478011927; 9781478014065Subject(s): 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 | Atlantic Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 19th centuryAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Black bodies, white goldDDC classification: 704.0396 LOC classification: N8217.C64 | A733 2021
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Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.