| Description |
216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
The Richard Hampton Jenrette series in architecture and the decorative arts |
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Richard Hampton Jenrette series in architecture & the decorative arts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index. |
| Summary |
"When nineteenth-century artists painted plantation scenes, they usually began with preparatory sketches made while standing in front of a planter's house or somewhere slightly below it. From either position, notes John Vlach, their gaze - and that of anyone who looked at the finished paintings - was necessarily directed upward. Instead of following the common compositional rule for landscape painting that called for a view from above, an outlook that fostered a feeling of mastery in the viewer, artists rendering plantation vistas employed a perspective that echoed the deference and respect the planter class assumed was its due." |
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"In The Planter's Prospect, Vlach explores these and other statements of power encoded in plantation landscapes. He focuses on six artists whose collective body of work spanned the period between 1800 and 1935 and documented plantations across the South, from Maryland to Louisiana. Framing thoughtful, in-depth analyses of plantation imagery in the work of Francis Guy, Charles Fraser, Adrien Persac, Fanny Palmer, William Aiken Walker, and Alice Ravenel Huger Smith are chapters that examine the formal features of plantation paintings and the social attitudes that influenced the way southern audiences looked at those paintings."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Plantation images: the contours of practice -- Proofs of power: the Maryland estate paintings of Francis Guy -- Beauty without bondsmen: low-country scenes from Charles Fraser's sketchbook -- Meticulous renderings of tranquility: Adrien Persac's plantation watercolors -- Mrs. Palmer's cabin: the South according to Currier & Ives -- A not so sunny South: William Aiken Walker's planatation paintings -- Veiled in memories: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith's rice plantation series -- Controlled with a paintbrush: black figures in plantation paintings. |
| Subject |
Landscape painting, American -- Southern States -- 19th century.
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Landscape painting, American -- Southern States -- 20th century.
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Plantation life in art.
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Landscape painting, American. (OCoLC)fst00991960
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Plantation life in art. (OCoLC)fst01065783
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld (DE-588)10090522-5
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Landschaftsmalerei (DE-588)4114355-3
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Plantage Motiv (DE-588)7612247-5
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Sklave Motiv (DE-588)4204854-0
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Sklaverei Motiv (DE-588)4204853-9
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United States -- Südstaaten
(DE-588)4078674-2
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Plantage (DE-588)4136213-5
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Landwirtschaft Motiv (DE-588)4202581-3
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Landschapschilderkunst.
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Plantages.
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Slaven (arbeid)
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Plantage-eigenaren.
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Landwirtschaft <Motiv>
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Plantage.
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Sklaverei <Motiv>
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United States -- Südstaaten.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Vlach, John Michael, 1948- Planter's prospect. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002 (OCoLC)606678066 |
| ISBN |
0807826863 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780807826867 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0807853526 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807853528 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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