Contraband guides race, transatlantic culture, and the arts in the Civil War era

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Paul H. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2020]©2020, 2020
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Collection: JSTOR Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 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