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

Kaplan, Paul H. D. 1952-

Contraband guides : race, transatlantic culture, and the arts in the Civil War era / Paul H. D. Kaplan. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies 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.

"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"--



9780271088228 9780271088204

2019048015


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.


Electronic Books.

N8232 / .C668 2020