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In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and the African diaspora. The essays remind us that historical developments like slavery and empire-building were mostly experienced and shaped by men and women outside of the elite political, economic, and military groups to which historians often turn as sources. Despite the scarcity of written records and other methodological challenges, the contributors to Biography and the Black Atlantic have pieced together vivid glimpses into lives of remarkable, through previously unknown, enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in different parts of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. From the woman of Fulani origin who made her way from Revolutionary Haiti to Louisiana to the free black American who sailed for Liberia and the former slave from Brazil who became a major slave trader in Angola, these stories render the Atlantic world as a densely and sometimes unpredictably interconnected sphere. Biography and the Black Atlantic demonstrates the power of individual stories to illuminate history: though the life histories recounted here often involved extraordinary achievement and survival against the odds, they also portray the struggle for self-determination and community in the midst of alienation that lies at the heart of the modern condition. Contributors: James T. Campbell, Vincent Carretta, Roquinaldo Ferreira, Jean-Michel Hébrard, Martin Klein, Lloyd S. Kramer, Sheryl Kroen, Jane Landers, Lisa A. Lindsay, Joseph C. Miller, Cassandra Pybus, João José Reis, Rebecca J. Scott, Jon Sensbach, John Wood Sweet.

18e siècle-19e siècle. --- Biographie (Genre littéraire). --- Biography as a literary form. --- Blacks --- Blacks. --- Esclaves --- Historiography. --- Noirs --- Noirs. --- Slave trade --- Slave trade. --- History --- Commerce --- Histoire --- Atlantic Ocean Region. --- Atlantique (région). --- Historiography --- Historiographie --- Black people --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- History. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- African Studies. --- African-American Studies. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- European History. --- World History.

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Ce catalogue est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme présentée au musée Luxembourg, Paris, du 11 septembre 2019 au 16 février 2020.00Les années 1760, au début du règne de George III, ont marqué un tournant pour l'art britannique, avec l'ascension triomphante de Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) et de Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), ainsi que la fondation, en 1768, de la Royal Academy of Arts. Reconnus comme les maîtres du portrait, Reynolds et Gainsborough ont rivalisé pour élever le genre à des niveaux d'innovation visuelle et intellectuelle inédits.0Ces deux artistes ont redéfini l'art britannique et ont hissé toute une génération vers de nouveaux sommets en réinventant les règles et les conventions de la peinture sur des thèmes récurrents comme la lignée, la famille et le foyer dans les portraits, la peinture de genre et d'histoire, le paysage... Les artistes britanniques ont fait également évoluer la figuration narrative pour tendre vers le sublime.

Portrait painting, English --- Painting, English --- Nature in art --- History --- Painting --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- United Kingdom --- burgerij --- landschappen --- orientalisme --- portretten --- revoluties --- schilderkunst --- symbolisme --- Beechey, William --- Blake, William --- Constable, John --- Cotes, Francis --- Cotman, John Sell --- Cozens, Alexander --- Cozens, John Robert --- Daniell, Thomas --- Fuseli, Henry --- Gainsborough, Thomas --- Hodges, William --- Hoppner, John --- Lawrence, Thomas --- Martin, John --- Morland, George --- Reynolds, Joshua --- Romney, George --- Turner, Joseph Mallord William --- Wilson, Richard --- Wright of Derby, Joseph --- Zoffany, Johan --- 18de eeuw --- 19de eeuw --- Groot-Brittannië --- Peinture anglaise --- 18e siècle-19e siècle --- revolutie, revolte, opstand --- burgerij, middenklasse, stedelingen, poorters --- schilderkunst. --- revolutie, revolte, opstand. --- burgerij, middenklasse, stedelingen, poorters. --- portretten. --- landschappen. --- orientalisme. --- symbolisme. --- Reynolds, Joshua. --- Gainsborough, Thomas. --- Romney, George. --- Beechey, William. --- Lawrence, Thomas. --- Cotes, Francis. --- Wright of Derby, Joseph. --- Hoppner, John. --- Morland, George. --- Wilson, Richard. --- Cozens, John Robert. --- Cozens, Alexander. --- Cotman, John Sell. --- Constable, John. --- Turner, Joseph Mallord William. --- Zoffany, Johan. --- Hodges, William. --- Daniell, Thomas. --- Fuseli, Henry. --- Blake, William. --- Martin, John. --- 18de eeuw. --- 19de eeuw. --- Groot-Brittannië.