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Hidden in plain sight : concealing enslavement in American visual culture
Title
Hidden in plain sight : concealing enslavement in American visual culture / Rachel Stephens.
ISBN
9781682262337
1682262332
9781610757980
Publication
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xii, 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Summary
"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.
Other formats
Online version: Stephens, Rachel (Rachel Elizabeth) Hidden in plain sight Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 15, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"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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