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

by John Michael Vlach

Book Overview

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' landholdings were often depicted from a point below the plantation house, a perspective that directs the viewer's gaze upward and, as John Vlach observes, echoes the deference and respect the planter class assumed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807853526
• ISBN13: 9780807853528
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.0"