Cheryl Finley

Broschiertes Buch

Committed to Memory

The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

Beschreibung

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne 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

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 190mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9780691241067
• ISBN-10: 0691241066
• Artikelnr.: 63764761