Black Bodies, White Gold
Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World
Seiten
2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1192-7 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1192-7 (ISBN)
In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. In doing so, Arabindan-Kesson models an art historical approach that makes the histories of the Black diaspora central to nineteenth-century cultural production. She traces the emergence of a speculative vision that informs perceptions of Blackness in which artistic renderings of cotton-as both commodity and material-became inexorably tied to the monetary value of Black bodies. From the production and representation of “negro cloth”-the textile worn by enslaved plantation workers-to depictions of Black sharecroppers in photographs and paintings, Arabindan-Kesson demonstrates that visuality was the mechanism through which Blackness and cotton became equated as resources for extraction. In addition to interrogating the work of nineteenth-century artists, she engages with contemporary artists such as Hank Willis Thomas, Lubaina Himid, and Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, who contend with the commercial and imperial processes shaping constructions of Blackness and meanings of labor.
Anna Arabindan-Kesson is Assistant Professor of Black Diaspora Art at Princeton University.
Acknowledgments vii
Illustrations xv
Introduction: Threads of Empire 1
1. Circuits of Cotton 29
2. Market Aesthetics: Color, Cloth, and Commerce 67
3. Of Vision and Value: Landscape and Labor after Slavery 121
4. Material Histories and Speculative Conditions 171
Coda: A Material with Memory 203
Notes 213
Bibliography 247
Index 285
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 88 color illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 975 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-1192-0 / 1478011920 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-1192-7 / 9781478011927 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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