The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings by John Michael Vlach

The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings

John Michael Vlach

240 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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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' landhold...

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