"A long-overdue study of the depiction of slavery in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture, Hidden in Plain Sight investigates the relationship between proslavery politics and the visual record. By examining a vast array of Civil War-era artworks that champion the institution of enslavement and connecting them with the abolitionist materials to which they respond, Rachel Stephens traces themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera and explores how the visual canon of high art was used to cover up, control, and reshape the discourse surrounding the United States' most odious institution."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Pictorial Record Should Issue from the South": Art and Visual Culture of the Slavery Defense
"Tyranny without Mercy": Proslavery Destruction in Response to Abolitionism
"Concealed by Some of Their Negroes": Sarcastic Indictments of Slavery and Southern Concealment
"The Family White and Black": Antebellum Photographs of Enslaved Women
"Entire Secrecy Had to Be Preserved": Adalbert Volck's Confidential Work for the Confederacy
"Whatever Is Un-Virginian is Wrong": Loyal Slaves, Confederate Heroes, and Lost Cause Ideology in the Art of Confederate Virginia.
ISBN
9781682262337 (hardcover)
1682262332 (hardcover)
LCCN
2022061347
OCLC
1358757685
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