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The planter's prospect : privilege and slavery in plantation paintings / by Vlach, John Michael,1948-(CARDINAL)135279; University of North Carolina Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)166029;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index."When nineteenth-century artists painted plantation scenes, they usually began with preparatory sketches made while standing in front of a planter's house or somewhere slightly below it. From either position, notes John Vlach, their gaze - and that of anyone who looked at the finished paintings - was necessarily directed upward. Instead of following the common compositional rule for landscape painting that called for a view from above, an outlook that fostered a feeling of mastery in the viewer, artists rendering plantation vistas employed a perspective that echoed the deference and respect the planter class assumed was its due.""In The Planter's Prospect, Vlach explores these and other statements of power encoded in plantation landscapes. He focuses on six artists whose collective body of work spanned the period between 1800 and 1935 and documented plantations across the South, from Maryland to Louisiana. Framing thoughtful, in-depth analyses of plantation imagery in the work of Francis Guy, Charles Fraser, Adrien Persac, Fanny Palmer, William Aiken Walker, and Alice Ravenel Huger Smith are chapters that examine the formal features of plantation paintings and the social attitudes that influenced the way southern audiences looked at those paintings."--Jacket.
Subjects: Landscape painting, American; Landscape painting, American; Plantation life in art.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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In open contempt : confronting White supremacy in art and public space / by Weathersby, Irvin,Jr.,author.;
Prologue: Losers and trophies -- Plantation visitations -- 1811 Street -- A lesson before dying -- "Have you seen our sisters?" -- Captain Blackman -- A day in the life of chains -- The deities of water and canebrake -- Open caskets -- Retold in present tense -- Epilogue: "art makes better humans"."A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces"--
Subjects: Racism and the arts; Arts and society; White supremacy (Social structure);
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 18
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Don't hold me back : my life and art / by Rembert, Winfred.(CARDINAL)295293; Baker, Charles F.,III.(CARDINAL)377701; Baker, Rosalie F.(CARDINAL)377702;
Includes bibliographical references (page 40).Through words and paintings, an artist tells about growing up on a cotton plantation in Cuthbert, Georgia, serving time in prison for his actions during a civil rights demonstration, and finding a purpose and direction in life.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Rembert, Winfred; African American painters; African Americans; Artists; Outsider art;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Planters and pioneers; life in colonial Virginia; the story in pictures and text of the people who settled England's first successful colony from its planting in 1607 to the birth of the United States in 1789 / by Rouse, Parke,1915-1997.(CARDINAL)150279;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.Prologue -- The Search for Gold -- The Indians -- The First Families -- Sea Lanes to England -- Houses, Roads, Ferries, Inns -- The Western Frontier -- The Church and Dissenters -- The Plantations -- The Negroes -- Food, Drink, and Merriment -- The Quest for Knowledge -- Outdoor Life -- Arts and Entertainment -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Plantation life;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Pawleys Island : a Lowcountry tale / by Frank, Dorothea Benton.(CARDINAL)353828;
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Seaside resorts; Plantation life; Women artists; Women lawyers; Art dealers; Friendship; Secrecy; Friendships.; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 112 / Total copies: 130
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Pawleys Island [sound recording] : a Lowcountry tale / by Frank, Dorothea Benton.(CARDINAL)353828;
Read by the author.Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.
Subjects: Art dealers; Audiobooks.; Friendship; Plantation life; Seaside resorts; Secrecy; Women artists; Women lawyers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Pawleys Island [sound recording] : a Lowcountry tale / by Frank, Dorothea Benton,author.(CARDINAL)353828;
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.Read by the author.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Art dealers; Audiobooks.; Friendship; Friendship; Plantation life; Seaside resorts; Secrecy; Women artists; Women lawyers;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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Pawleys Island [sound recording] : a Lowcountry tale by Frank, Dorothea Benton.;
Read by the author.Huey Valentine and his great friend Abigail Thurmond are complacent in their fat and sassy lives until the stormy advent of the artist Rebecca Simms. Rebecca has been catapulted from her home, her marriage, and her children. She has escaped to Pawleys Island to hide herself from herself. But after Miss Olivia pries Rebecca's secrets from her, Huey and especially Abigail are challenged to reenter life outside the dream state their idyllic geography evokes.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Art dealers; Friendship; Plantation life; Seaside resorts; Secrecy; Women artists; Women lawyers;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Slavery, geography and empire in nineteenth-century marine landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica / by Nelson, Charmaine,author.(CARDINAL)841249; Routledge (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)764271;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement--Back cover.
Subjects: Slavery in art.; Landscapes in art.; Imperialism in art.; Art and society; Art and society;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Learning about Colonial America with arts & crafts / by Challen, Paul C.(Paul Clarence),1967-(CARDINAL)643850;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.The thirteen colonies -- Jamestown Colony -- The New England colonies and the Pilgrims -- Craft to make : quill pen and ink -- Native Americans and colonists -- The middle colonies -- Towns and villages -- Craft to make : dipped candles -- A day at work -- Craft to make : colonial bonnet -- The southern colonies -- Plantation life -- Craft to make : paper quilling."Life in colonial America differed greatly depending on where you lived. Colonists in New England were often close to cities and centers of trade. Many colonists in the South lived on or around plantations. Readers learn about these different ways of life as they make crafts influenced by different facets of colonial life, including candles and bonnets, all explained through step-by-step instructions. Readers discover facts about life in the colonies through accessible text, as well as informative sidebars and fact boxes. Historical images are included throughout to show readers what colonial America was like"--Provided by the publisher.4-5.8-11.3-6.4-8T
Subjects: Handicraft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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