schema:name "Hidden in plain sight"
schema:creator Stephens, Rachel
schema:author Stephens, Rachel
schema:about kunst en maatschappij
beeldcultuur
Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog
politieke aspecten
slavernij
slavernij (motief)
geheimen
Virginia (state)
VS
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schema:abstract ""A long-overdue study of the depiction of slavery in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture, Hidden in Plain Sight investigates the relationship between proslavery politics and the visual record. By examining a vast array of Civil War-era artworks that champion the institution of enslavement and connecting them with the abolitionist materials to which they respond, Rachel Stephens traces themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera and explores how the visual canon of high art was used to cover up, control, and reshape the discourse surrounding the United States' most odious institution"-- Provided by publisher."@en
""In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization that they faced. In response, proslavery southerners attempted to counter these messages either through idealization or outright erasure of enslaved life. In Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, Rachel Stephens addresses an enormous body of material by tracing themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera, connecting long overlooked artworks with both the abolitionist materials to which they were responding and archival research across a range of southern historical narratives. Stephens begins her fascinating study with an examination of the ways that slavery was visually idealized and defended in antebellum art. She then explores the tyranny—especially that depicted in art—enacted by supporters of enslavement, introduces a range of ways that artwork depicting slavery was tangibly concealed, considers photographs of enslaved female caretakers with the white children they reared, and investigates a printmaker’s confidential work in support of the Confederacy. Finally, she delves into an especially pernicious group of proslavery artists in Richmond, Virginia."-- Provided by publisher."@en
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schema:text "Pictorial Record Should Issue from the South": Art and Visual Culture of the Slavery Defense -- "Tyranny without Mercy": Proslavery Destruction in Response to Abolitionism -- "Concealed by Some of Their Negroes": Sarcastic Indictments of Slavery and Southern Concealment -- "The Family White and Black": Antebellum Photographs of Enslaved Women -- "Entire Secrecy Had to Be Preserved": Adalbert Volck's Confidential Work for the Confederacy -- "Whatever Is Un-Virginian is Wrong": Loyal Slaves, Confederate Heroes, and Lost Cause Ideology in the Art of Confederate Virginia.
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