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The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
The Planter's Prospect Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
Author: John Michael Vlach
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 vie...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807853528
ISBN-10: 0807853526
Publication Date: 3/25/2002
Pages: 240
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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