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Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour

Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour

Odumosu, Temi

Hardcover

Art HistoryEuropean Art

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ISBN10: 1909400505
ISBN13: 9781909400504
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Published: Oct 15 2017
Pages: 223
Weight: 2.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.90 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
Between 1769 and 1819 London experienced an unprecedented growth in the proliferation of texts and images in the popular sphere, engaging learned citizens in discussion and commentary on the most pressing social and political issues of the day. From the repeal of the Stamp Act to the French revolution, the local Westminster election or the abolition of the slave trade, these prints, political pamphlets, plays, novels and periodicals collaborated (sometimes intentionally) in critique, praise and assessment of the country's changing socio-economic climate. African people were a critical aspect of this world of images, and their presence conveyed much about the implications of travel, colonialism and slavery on the collective psyche. Whether encountered on the streets of the city, in opulent stately homes, or in tracts describing the horrors of the slave trade, the British paid attention to Africans (consciously or not), and developed a means of expressing the impact of these encounters through images. Scholarship has begun to interrogate the presence of Africans in British art of this period, but very little has been written about their place in visual and literary humour created in a metropolitan context. This book fills this scholarly lacuna, exploring how and why satirical artists both mocked and utilized these characters as subversive comic weaponry.

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