{"product_id":"art-of-the-amistad-and-the-portrait-of-cinque-9781442253407","title":"Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinque","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Amistad incident, one of the few successful ship revolts in the history of enslavement, has been discussed by historians for decades, even becoming the subject of a Steven Spielberg film in 1997, which brought the story to wide audiences. But, while historians have examined the Amistad case for its role in the long history of the Atlantic, the United States and slavery, there is an oil on canvas painting of one man, Cinqué, at the center of this story, an image so crucial to the continual retelling and memorialization of the Amistad story, it is difficult to think about the Amistad and not think of this image. Visual and material culture about the Amistad in the form of paintings, prints, monuments, memorials, museum exhibits, quilts and banners, began production in the late summer of 1839 and has not yet ceased. Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué is the first book to survey in total these Amistad inspired images and related objects, and to find in them shared ideals and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura A. Macaluso’s The Art of the Amistad and the Portrait of Cinqué is a book of many ambitions. . . [It] establishes a solid foundation for future scholarship and an accessible resource for those interested in a truly remarkable moment in transatlantic history. * The New England Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“’Portrait of Cinque’ by Nathaniel Jocelyn, is the focus of author Laura A. Macaluso’s newest book entitled, Art of the Amistad \u0026amp; The Portrait of Cinque.  The portrait has enjoyed iconic status for nearly two centuries because of Jocelyn’s singular vision of a man who’s humanity was not deadened by the ravages of enslavement, or stolen by the struggles he endured on his dogged quest for freedom. He is someone we would all want to know because his image convinces us that there is courage, dignity, promise, and greatness even in the least of us.” -- Rex M. Ellis, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution\u003cbr\u003e“Placing the great portrait of Cinque in a rich, changing artistic context, Laura Macaluso has written a fascinating and sublimely illustrated study of the art of the Amistad story.  Nothing fired, for better and worse, the American antislavery imagination quite like the epic events surrounding the Amistad captives in 1839-41.  And nothing left a richer tale of those events than the great painting by Nathaniel Jocelyn of Cinque, which itself had an epic history before it found its way on to the walls of the New Haven Museum.  Macaluso has done some stunning research, and tells a narrative history of how this great story survives in many visual forms.” -- David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University, and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Preface Acknowledgments  Chapter 1:\tPrologue  Chapter 2:\tBehind the Canvas  Chapter 3:\tPresenting Cinqué\/Collecting Cinqué: Chapter 4:\tPresenting Cinqué\/Collecting Cinqué: Chapter 5:\tCoda   Bibliography Index About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039948538199,"sku":"9781442253407","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442253407.jpg?v=1750945329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-of-the-amistad-and-the-portrait-of-cinque-9781442253407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}