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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
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Flesh to Stone
The products of a series of encounters characterized by the negotiation of the desires of artist and sitter, ingriste portraits did not only exist in the rarefied realm of the atelier. The women portrayed included key participants in the artistic and social culture of Ingres's studio, including Julie Mottez, Marie d'Agoult, and Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel Felix]. Charting the convergence of aesthetic investments on the part of artists and noteworthy women subjects around the terms of monumental solidity and 'antiquity,' I demonstrate that operations of emulation exceeded the bounds of the (male) community of Ingres's students and the images of women they produced, and were shaped by the identities of women sitters as salonnieres, art critics, artists and aesthetic interlocutors. This project thereby traces the history of portraits of women within an atelier setting whose 'culture' was not limited to the space of the studio itself, or to the male artists who occupied it.
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Books in Series
Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
