Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon - Hardcover

Finley, Cheryl

 
9780691136844: Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 069113684X ISBN 13: 9780691136844
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was--shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity, and remembrance.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cheryl Finley is associate professor of art history at Cornell University. She is the coauthor of Harlem: A Century in Images and the coeditor of Diaspora, Memory, Place: David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z.

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"An original and brilliantly conceived account of how the horrors of the transatlantic trade in human cargo have been visualized in art and culture over more than two centuries. Finley has written a nuanced and provocative book that leaves an imprint on one's mind as indelible as the slave ship icon itself."--Kellie Jones, author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art

"Stimulating and insightful. Finley hones in on the cultural and political strategies that have animated and illustrated the impact of the Atlantic slave trade."--Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
069113684X
ISBN 13 
9780691136844
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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