ART AND EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA: ISAAC MENDES BELISARIO AND HIS WORLDS

Barringer, Tim; Forrester, Gillian; Martinez-Ruiz, Barbaro

ISBN 10: 0300116616 / ISBN 13: 9780300116618

Published by Yale Center for British Art/Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007

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Quarto; 592 pages; G+/VG-; White Dustjacket spine with blue and green text; Dustjacket protected by mylar covering, minor wear to edges; Textblock has splitting along gutter of half title page; SH Consignment; Shelved Case 11. 1363145. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1363145

Bibliographic Details

Title: ART AND EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA: ISAAC ...

Publisher: Yale Center for British Art/Yale University Press, New Haven

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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Synopsis:

Coinciding with the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, this multi-disciplinary volume chronicles the iconography of sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s. Focusing on the visual and material culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica, it offers new perspectives on art, music, and performance in Afro-Jamaican society and on the Jewish diaspora in the Caribbean. Central to the book is Sketches of Character (1837-38), a remarkable series of lithographs by the Jewish Jamaican artist Isaac Mendes Belisario, constituting the earliest detailed representation of the masquerade form 'Jonkonnu'. Innovative scholarship traces the West African roots of Jonkonnu through its evolution in Jamaica and continuing transformation today; offers a unique portrait of Jamaican culture at a pivotal historical moment; and provides a new model for interpreting the visual culture of empire.

About the Author:

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, and the author of Reading the Pre-Raphaelites and Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (Yale). Gillian Forrester is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art, and co-author of The Line of Beauty (Yale). Barbaro Martinez Ruiz is Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University.