Published to accompany an exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Va., the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Ga. "Published in cooperation with the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association." Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-160) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Todd D. Smith -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Angela D. Mack -- Perpetuating the past: plantation landscape paintings then and now / John Michael Vlach -- Picturing the plantation / Roberta Sokolitz -- Identifying spaces of blackness: the aesthetics of resistance and identity in American plantation art / Leslie King-Hammond -- The most famous plantation of all: the politics of painting Mount Vernon / Maurie D. McInnis -- From Gilded age to Gone with the wind: the plantation in early twentieth century art / Alexis L. Boylan -- Blind memory and old resentments: the plantation imagination / Michael D. Harris -- General bibliography.
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