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Witnessing Slavery - Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition (Hardcover)
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Witnessing Slavery - Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition (Hardcover)
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A timely and original look at the role of the eyewitness account in
the representation of slavery in British and European art Gathering
together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints,
this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting
iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and
1840. In addition to considering how the work of artists such as
Agostino Brunias, James Hakewill, and Augustus Earle responded to
abolitionist politics, Sarah Thomas examines the importance of the
eyewitness account in endowing visual representations of
transatlantic slavery with veracity. "Being there," indeed, became
significant not only because of the empirical opportunities to
document slave life it afforded but also because the imagery of the
eyewitness was more credible than sketches and paintings created by
the "armchair traveler" at home. Full of original insights that
cast a new light on these highly charged images, this volume
reconsiders how slavery was depicted within a historical context in
which truth was a deeply contested subject. Distributed for the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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