Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840

Publication Data

• Title Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840
• Author Kay Dian Kriz
• Contributor Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

"Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."

Contents

Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement
Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamaica
Marketing mulâtresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian scenes
The physiognomy and pathology of "black humor" : caricature and the West Indies on the eve of abolition
Making a black folk : Belisario's Sketches of character
Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840.

Topics

• Social classes in art
• Blacks in art
• Slavery in art
• Art, British :: 18th century
• Art, British :: 19th century
• West Indies, British :: In art
• West Indies, British

Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 by Kay Dian Kriz. ISBN 9780300140620. Published by Yale University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.