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Author:

Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- author.

Title:

Contraband guides : race, transatlantic culture, and the arts in the Civil War era / Paul H. D. Kaplan.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 300 pages : illustration (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

African Americans in art--History--19th century.
Blacks in art--History--19th century.
Art, American--19th century.
African American art--19th century.
African American art--European influences.
Art and race--History--19th century.
African American art.
African American art--European influences.
African Americans in art.
Art, American.
Art and race.
Blacks in art.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280) and index.

Contents:

Representations of people of color in nineteenth-century American accounts of Italian travel -- "A Mulatto sculptor from New Orleans" : Eugene Warburg in Europe, 1853-1859 -- "The black man to-day means liberty" : African American figures in the work of Emanuel Leutze -- "Something American" : art and slavery in the correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton -- Old masters : the Western tradition of the visual arts in African American culture in the Civil War era -- Contraband guide : Mark Twain in race and the Renaissance.

Summary:

"Explores the theme of race in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture, focusing on how American concepts of race were intertwined with the ongoing cultural exchanges that Americans had with European artistic traditions"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0271083859
9780271083858

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1121284596

LCCN:

2019048015

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)