Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale Center for British Art)

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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 start of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation within the 1840s. That specialize in the visual and subject material culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica, it offers new perspectives on art, music, and function in Afro-Jamaican society and at the Jewish diaspora within 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. Leading edge scholarship traces the West African roots of Jonkonnu through its evolution in Jamaica and continuing transformation lately; offers a singular portrait of Jamaican culture at a pivotal historical moment; and gives a new model for interpreting the visual culture of empire.

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