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

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource 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 Analysis Abraham Lincoln Adoration of the Magi African American Afro-European Billy Lee Charles Eliot Norton Civil War Emanuel Leutze Eugène Warburg Frederick Douglass George Washington Harriet Beecher Stowe Jacopo Tintoretto John Hay John Ruskin Joshua Bowen Smith Mark Twain Neoclassical sculpture Paolo Veronese Pierre Soulé Race Slavery Transatlantic William Cooper Nell William Dean Howells William J. Wilson Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject African Americans in art -- History -- 19th century Black people 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 ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) African American art African American art -- European influences African Americans in art Art, American Art and race Black people in art Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019048015 ISBN 9780271088228 0271088222 9780271088204 0271088206

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