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"--
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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.