Landscape of Slavery
Description
Tent. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Art Museum, 00-00-2008 ; Charleston, The Gibbes Museum of Art, 00-00-0000 ; Augusta, The Morris Museum of Art, 00-00-0000. - Approaching their topic through the lenses of art history and social history, the authors explore a largely unexamined and provocative genre of American art: plantation paintings. The essays present both the images and a background for understanding them in the context of slavery and race relations in the United States.