Creole Identity in the Art of the American South - Louisiana From the Colonial Era to Reconstruction

Summary

This book explores the ambiguity of racial and caste categories in Louisiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which is essential for a more nuanced understanding of the role of Americans of African descent in American art history as artists and as patrons.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Castenell, Wendy (The University of Alabama) Castenell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.12.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781138054301
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05430-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Louisiana, Ethnic Studies, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), ART / American / General, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), ART / Techniques / Painting, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Painting & paintings, HISTORY / African American & Black, ART / American / African American & Black, Civil wars, American Civil War, Paintings and painting, Relating to Creole people