Witnessing slavery
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126584
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126589
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132059
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  alternate name: Slavery in art
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  alternate name: Slave trade in art
abstract: 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.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310203444
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310203444
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Testamentary space -- Visual culture and abolition -- Envisioning a future for slavery: Agostino Brunias and the politics of reproduction -- Unmasking 'simple truth': John Gabriel Stedman in Suriname -- Visual testimony from a Jamaican resident: James Hakewill and the topographical imagination -- Slavery as spectacle: Debret, Earle and Rugendas in Rio de Janeiro.
temporal coverage: 1760 -1840
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301298985
type: CreativeWork

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