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Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

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Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

PublisherYale Center for British Art

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Stephen Banfield is Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol and Director of CHOMBEC, Bristol’s Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth. He is the author of Sensibility and English Song (1985); Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals (1993); Gerald Finzi (1997); and Jerome Kern (2006), and editor of Music in Britain: The Twentieth Century (1995).

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1999) and Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (2005), as well as the exhibition catalogues American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880 (2002), with Andrew Wilton, and Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy (2007). He also coedited Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum (1998); Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, and Modernity (1999); and Art and the British Empire (2007).

Kenneth Bilby is Director of Research at the Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of True-Born Maroons (2005) and coauthor of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae (2006).

Graham C. Boettcher is the Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. He holds a doctorate in the History of Art from Yale University. He has contributed to the exhibition catalogues American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880 (2002) and Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Art and the American Experience (forthcoming in 2008).

Gillian Forrester is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art and a specialist in British print culture. She has curated numerous exhibitions, among them Graphic! British Prints Now (1999); Ruskin: Past: Present: Future (2000); The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions (2003); and The Romantic Print in Britain (2004). Her publications include ‘Turner’s Drawing Book’: The Liber Studiorum (1996) and The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (2001), with Scott Wilcox.

Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Her recent work has centered on questions of race, ethnicity, and difference in the history of the nineteenth-century nation and empire. Her publications include Defining the Victorian Nation: Race, Class, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867 (2000), jointly authored with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall; Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867 (2002); and At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (2006), edited with Sonya O. Rose. She is also an editor of History Workshop Journal.

Stuart Hall is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Humanities in the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences and Titular Head of the Queen Mary Arts Research Centre, University of London. His numerous publications include The Popular Arts (1965); Policing the Crisis (1978); Culture, Media, Language, New Times (1980); Resistance through Rituals (1990); Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (1996); Questions of Cultural Identity (1996); and Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (1997).

Eleanor Hughes is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art.

Kay Dian Kriz is Associate Professor of Art History at Brown University. She is the author of The Idea of the English Landscape Painter: Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century (1997) and coeditor of An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the Atlantic World, 1660–1830 (2003).

Alexander Lee is a PhD student in Political Science at Stanford University.

Courtney J. Martin is a Doctoral Candidate in the History of Art at Yale University.

Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz is Assistant Professor in the department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, where he is currently researching and teaching African Graphic Writing Systems in the Kongo world. Previously he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the High Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary and African art and also presented his own multimedia work in solo and group exhibitions in New York and Alabama.

Rebecca Peabody is a Research Associate in the Contemporary Programs and Research Department at the Getty Rersearch Institute.

Stéphane Roy is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art.

Verene A. Shepherd is Professor of Social History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of West Indies, Mona, and Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. She serves as Chair of the Board of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. She is the compiler of Women in Caribbean History (1999) and “I Want To Disturb My Neighbour”: Lectures On Slavery, Emancipation & Post-Colonial Jamaica and Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica (both forthcoming in 2007); coauthor with Hilary Beckles of Liberties Lost Caribbean indigenous societies ands slave systems (2004) and Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipation, Ethnicities, & Nationhood (2006); and editor of Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa and the African Diaspora (2002) and Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society since the 17th Century (2002).

Holly Snyder is North American History Librarian at the John Hay Library, Brown University. She holds a doctorate in early American history from Brandeis University. Her research interests cover Jewish interactions with the British Atlantic world, and she has published articles in the journals William & Mary Quarterly (2001) and Jewish History (2006), and in the edited volumes Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives (2000), The Jews of Rhode Island (2004), and Imagining the American Jewish Community (2007).

Robert Farris Thompson is Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where he is also Master of Timothy Dwight College. He is the author of the exhibition catalogues African Art and Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katharine Coryton White (1974); The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds (1981), with Joseph Cornet; and The Face of the Gods: Shrines and Altars of the Black Atlantic World (1993). His other publications include Black Gods and Kings: Yorubo Art at UCLA (1971); Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (1984); Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas (1993); Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women from the Ituri Forest (1995), with Georges Meurant; and Tango: The Art History of Love (2005).

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