[PDF.70mh] The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings

The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings

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 | #2379645 in Books |  2002-03-25 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .92 x8.30 x10.29l,2.30 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings|By Lesley Potter|This is an excellent book regarding the genre of Southern plantation paintings as the perspective reflects the shared cultural knowledge and beliefs of the South. Important for any Southern decorative arts historian or appraiser.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| |"Vlach introduces us to half a dozen artists whose pictures reveal more than they could realize about how white Americans chose to misremember the plantation world." - Peter H. Wood, Duke University| |With the right moment

Although nineteenth-century American landscapes typically were painted from a high vantage point, looking down from above, southern landscapes that featured plantations diverged from this convention in telling ways. Portraits of planters' landholdings were often depicted from a point below the plantation house, a perspective that directs the viewer's gaze upward and, as John Vlach observes, echoes the deference and respect the planter class assumed was its due. Moreover,...

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