Boxer, David, 1946-2017, The black books, [1992-2003]
- Title(s):
- The black books.
- Published/Created:
- [Jamaica] : [ s.n.], [1992-2003]
- Physical Description:
- 3 v. : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsN7433.35.C27 B69 1992+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8186472
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Limited edition of 3 copies.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 2 of a limited edition of 3 copies. Signed by the artist.
A three-volume series intended to memorialize the Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Each page represents a year between Christopher Columbus's arrival in Jamaica in 1494 and the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1838. Each page employs a monochromatic collage of digital images. - Subject Terms:
- Artists' books -- Specimens.Slave trade -- Caribbean Area -- Pictorial works.Slavery -- Jamaica -- Pictorial works.
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- v. 1. 1494-1611
- v. 2. 1612-1733
- v. 3. 1734-1838.
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