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Item Number: 120762
Title: The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem
Author: McGrath, Elizabeth ; Jean Michel Massing (eds)
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ISBN: 9781908590431
Description: London-Torino: Warburg Institute, Nino Aragno, 2012. 24cm., pbk., illus. Contents: 1: Elizabeth McGrath: Caryatids, Page Boys, and African Fetters. Themes of Slavery in European art ; 2: Charles Robertson: Allegory and Ambiguity in Michelangelo's 'Slaves' ; 3: Jean-Luc Liez, L'esclavage comme métaphore religieuse dans l'iconographie de l'ordre des Trinitaires ; 4: Jean Michel Massing: The Iconography of Mediterranean Slavery in the Seventeenth Century ; 5: Rick Scorza: Messina 1535 to Lepanto 1571. Vasari, Borghini and the Imagery of Moors, Barbarians and Turks ; 6: Anthea Brook: From Borgo Pinti to Doccia: The Afterlife of Pietro Tacca's Moors for Livorno ; 7:Carmen Fracchia: The Urban Slave in Spain and New Spain ; 8: Ernst van den Boogaart: Black slavery and the 'mulatto escape hatch' in the Brazilian ensembles of Frans Post and Albert Eckhout ; 9: Elmer Kolfin: Becoming human. The iconography of black slavery in French, British and Dutch book illustrations c. 1600-c. 1800 ; 10: Meredith Gamer: George Morland's 'Slave Trade' and 'African Hospitality': Slavery, Sentiment and the Limits of the Abolitionist Image' ; 11: David Bindman: 'They are a happy people': some newly identified pro-slavery caricatures from the age of abolition ; 12: Temi Odumosu: Abolitionists, African diplomats and 'the black joke' in George Cruikshank's 'New Union Club'. (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 20)

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