9780691136844 - Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon by Finley, Cheryl (5 results)

First Edition. Large hardcover, very good with light wear. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. Black & White/Color Illus. & Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. inscribed by author on title page (see photo) . Sm 4to., 306pp., dust jacket very minor shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; inscribed by author on title page (see photo), otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Blue dj with yellow text, white illustrations, blue boards with gilt text on spine. 306 pp. Bw and color illustrations. Warmly inscribed by author on title page. "One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was - shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Finley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film-and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized their ancestors. Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory features works from around the world, taking readers from the United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It shows how contemporary black artists and their allies have used this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma of slavery and come to terms with its legacy" VG, some minor shelf wear to dj, all else excellent.

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