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Marie Adrien Persac

Author : H. Parrott Bacot,Barbara SoRelle Bacot,Sally Kittredge Reeves,John Lawrence,John Magill
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 080712642X

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Marie Adrien Persac by H. Parrott Bacot,Barbara SoRelle Bacot,Sally Kittredge Reeves,John Lawrence,John Magill Pdf

Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873) was a French-born Louisiana artist who worked in a range of mediums to produce a unique view of the lower Mississippi Valley at midcentury. In the first catalogued exhibition devoted solely to this multifaceted but overlooked talent, paintings, drawings, maps, and photographs from numerous holdings have been brought together to present fresh insights and reevaluate this artist's place in the annals of American history and material culture. Due in part to his broad talents artist, cartographer, architect, civil engineer, photographer, and art teacher Persac's work is of major importance to Southern history researchers and art historians. His paintings of south Louisiana plantation houses have captured that now-varnished lifestyle in minute detail, approximating the exactitude of architectural drafting. Today this series is invaluable to scholars of the period, as is Persac's painting of a steamboat interior -- the only one known to exist -- and another French Opera House, which burned to the ground in 1919.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author : Judith H. Bonner,Estill Curtis Pennington,Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807869949

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Judith H. Bonner,Estill Curtis Pennington,Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and Richard Clague's tonalist Louisiana bayou scenes. This comprehensive volume shows how, through the decades and centuries, the art of the South expanded from mimetic portraiture to sophisticated responses to national and international movements. The essays treat historic and current trends in the visual arts and architecture, major collections and institutions, and biographies of artists themselves. As leading experts on the region's artists and their work, editors Judith H. Bonner and Estill Curtis Pennington frame the volume's contributions with insightful overview essays on the visual arts and architecture in the American South.

Landscape of Slavery

Author : Angela D. Mack,Stephen G. Hoffius
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1570037205

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Landscape of Slavery by Angela D. Mack,Stephen G. Hoffius Pdf

Through eighty-nine color plates and six thematic essays, this collection examines depictions of plantations, plantation views, and related slave imagery in the context of the history of landscape painting in America, while addressing the impact of these images on US race relations.

The Planter's Prospect

Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015054268233

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The Planter's Prospect by John Michael Vlach Pdf

Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings

Beyond Freedom’s Reach

Author : Adam Rothman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674425156

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Beyond Freedom’s Reach by Adam Rothman Pdf

After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera’s owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera’s quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction.

Deep Roots

Author : Anne Butler
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781796023015

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Deep Roots by Anne Butler Pdf

Imagine the presumably pacifist Quaker physician surviving the wilds of frontier Louisiana only to see his descendants marry into families of battle-hardened warriors. One survived being bayoneted nine times in the Revolutionary War; one was tomahawked to death in the Indian Wars, and his heart was eaten by the redskins to carry on his bravery; brothers served as Andrew Jackson’s aides-de-camp at the Battle of New Orleans; and one was a seventeen-year-old marching off to the Civil War with his slave by his side. For a storyteller, this family is fertile ground, and for the reader, it is fascinating.

Louisiana History

Author : Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313076794

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Louisiana History by Florence M. Jumonville Pdf

From the accounts of 18th-century travelers to the interpretations of 21st-century historians, Jumonville lists more than 6,800 books, chapters, articles, theses, dissertations, and government documents that describe the rich history of America's 18th state. Here are references to sources on the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, Carnival, and Cajuns. Less-explored topics such as the rebellion of 1768, the changing roles of women, and civic development are also covered. It is a sweeping guide to the publications that best illuminate the land, the people, and the multifaceted history of the Pelican State. Arranged according to discipline and time period, chapters cover such topics as the environment, the Civil War and Reconstruction, social and cultural history, the people of Louisiana, local, parish, and sectional histories, and New Orleans. It also lists major historical sites and repositories of primary materials. As the only comprehensive bibliography of the secondary sources about the state, ^ILouisiana History^R is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers.

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

Author : Dale W. Tomich,Reinaldo Funes Monzote,Carlos Venegas Fornias,Rafael de Bivar Marquese
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663135

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Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery by Dale W. Tomich,Reinaldo Funes Monzote,Carlos Venegas Fornias,Rafael de Bivar Marquese Pdf

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes—from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraiba Valley—demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy. Artists and mapmakers documented in surprising detail how the physical organization of the landscape itself made possible the increased exploitation of enslaved labor. Reading these images today, one sees how technologies combined with evolving conceptions of plantation management that reduced enslaved workers to black bodies. Planter control of enslaved people's lives and labor maximized the production of each crop in a calculated system of production. Nature, too, was affected: the massive increase in the scale of production and new systems of cultivation increased the land's output. Responding to world economic conditions, the replication of slave-based commodity production became integral to the creation of mass markets for cotton, sugar, and coffee, which remain at the center of contemporary life.

Home Front

Author : Peter John Brownlee,Sarah Burns,Diane Dillon,Daniel Greene,Scott Manning Stevens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226065748

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Home Front by Peter John Brownlee,Sarah Burns,Diane Dillon,Daniel Greene,Scott Manning Stevens Pdf

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as a battle over the future of slavery, often focusing on Lincoln’s determination to save the Union, or highlighting the brutality of brother fighting brother. Battles and battlefields occupy us, too: Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg all conjure up images of desolate landscapes strewn with war dead. Yet the frontlines were not the only landscapes of the war. Countless civilians saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North reveals this side of the war as it happened, comprehensively examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. Through contributions from leading scholars from across the humanities, we discover how the war influenced household economies and the cotton economy; how the absence of young men from the home changed daily life; how war relief work linked home fronts and battle fronts; why Indians on the frontier were pushed out of the riven nation’s consciousness during the war years; and how wartime landscape paintings illuminated the nation’s past, present, and future. A companion volume to a collaborative exhibition organized by the Newberry Library and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Home Front is the first book to expose the visual culture of a world far removed from the horror of war yet intimately bound to it.

Slaves Waiting for Sale

Author : Maurie D. McInnis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226559339

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Slaves Waiting for Sale by Maurie D. McInnis Pdf

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia. This innovative book uses Crowe’s paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe’s trajectory from Richmond across the American South and back to London—where his paintings were exhibited just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War—Maurie D. McInnis illuminates not only how his abolitionist art was inspired and made, but also how it influenced the international public’s grasp of slavery in America. With almost 140 illustrations, Slaves Waiting for Sale brings a fresh perspective to the American slave trade and abolitionism as we enter the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

The Merchants' Capital

Author : Scott P. Marler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521897648

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The Merchants' Capital by Scott P. Marler Pdf

This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.

Creole Italian

Author : Justin A. Nystrom
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780820353579

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Creole Italian by Justin A. Nystrom Pdf

In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groceries, ran truck farms, operated bars and restaurants, and manufactured pasta. Citing these cultural confluences, Nystrom posits that the significance of Sicilian influence on New Orleans foodways traditionally has been undervalued and instead should be included, along with African, French, and Spanish cuisine, in the broad definition of “creole.” Creole Italian chronicles how the business of food, broadly conceived, dictated the reasoning, means, and outcomes for a large portion of the nearly forty thousand Sicilian immigrants who entered America through the port of New Orleans in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and how their actions and those of their descendants helped shape the food town we know today.

Louisiana Sojourns

Author : Frank de Caro
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807122408

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Louisiana Sojourns by Frank de Caro Pdf

A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is—much like the state itself—a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank A. de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.

Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780826204165

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Views and Viewmakers of Urban America by John William Reps Pdf

Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Author : Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0804740577

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Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide by Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn Pdf

This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.