ART AND EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA: ISAAC MENDES BELISARIO AND HIS WORLDS

Barringer, Tim; Forrester, Gillian; Martinez-Ruiz, Barbaro

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ISBN 10: 0300116616 ISBN 13: 9780300116618

Published by Yale Center for British Art/Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007

Language: English

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ART AND EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA: ISAAC MENDES BELISARIO AND HIS WORLDS

Publisher

Yale Center for British Art/Yale University Press, New Haven

Publication Date

2007

Language

English

ISBN 10

0300116616

ISBN 13

9780300116618

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Hardcover

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First Edition, First Printing.

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Coinciding with the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, this multi-disciplinary volume chronicles the iconography of sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s. Focusing on the visual and material culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica, it offers new perspectives on art, music, and performance in Afro-Jamaican society and on the Jewish diaspora in the Caribbean. Central to the book is Sketches of Character (1837–38)—a remarkable series of lithographs by the Jewish Jamaican artist Isaac Mendes Belisario—the earliest visual representation of the masquerade form Jonkonnu. Innovative scholarship traces the West African roots of Jonkonnu through its evolution in Jamaica and continuing transformation today; offers a unique portrait of Jamaican culture at a pivotal historical moment; and provides a new model for interpreting the visual culture of empire.

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Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. Gillian Forrester is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art. Barbaro Martinez Ruiz is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Stanford University.

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