Landscape of slavery : the plantation in American art / edited by Angela D. Mack, Stephen G. Hoffius ; with essays by Angela D. Mack [and others].

Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxvi, 166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Subjects
Plantations in art--Exhibitions.
Art, American--Exhibitions.

Other author/creatorMack, Angela D., 1952-
Other author/creatorHoffius, Stephen G.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Virginia. Art Museum.
Other author/creatorGibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.)
Other author/creatorMorris Museum of Art (Augusta, Ga.)
Other author/creatorCarolina Art Association.
Contents Foreword / Todd D. Smith -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Angela D. Mack -- Perpetuating the past: plantation landscape paintings then and now / John Michael Vlach -- Picturing the plantation / Roberta Sokolitz -- Identifying spaces of blackness: the aesthetics of resistance and identity in American plantation art / Leslie King-Hammond -- The most famous plantation of all: the politics of painting Mount Vernon / Maurie D. McInnis -- From Gilded age to Gone with the wind: the plantation in early twentieth century art / Alexis L. Boylan -- Blind memory and old resentments: the plantation imagination / Michael D. Harris -- General bibliography.
Local noteLittle-354683--305131034110M
General notePublished to accompany an exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Va., the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Ga.
General note"Published in cooperation with the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-160) and index.
LCCN 2007026399
ISBN9781570037191 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1570037191 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781570037207 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN1570037205 (pbk : alk. paper)

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