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An economy of colour: Visual culture and the Atlantic World, 1660-1830

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:44 authored by Geoffrey Quilley, Kay Dian Kriz
This study analyses visual culture in the context of British and French colonial activity in the North Atlantic from 1660-1830. It is a response to a noticeable omission in art history and cultural studies, which have largely ignored the diverse and important body of visual imagery relating to colonialism, Atlantic slavery and the development of racial ideology. This collection demonstrates that the visualization of individuals, communities, social types, fictive characters, artefacts and landscapes, played a highly significant role in both the European representation and self-representation of the peoples and places of the Atlantic colonial world. Consequently, it reasserts the primacy of visual culture as an active participant in forming this complex and fluid "imagined community". Drawing contributions from an international group of leading scholars, this volume should prove invaluable to students of art history, particularly those interested in race and culture.

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  • Published

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Pages

272.0

Place of publication

Manchester and New York

ISBN

9780719060069

Series

Critical Perspectives in Art History

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  • Art History Publications

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his is an edited book edited by Geoffrey Quilley, Kay Dian Kriz

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Editors

Geoffrey Quilley, Kay Dian Kriz

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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