Resumen de Details of Absence: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Post-Emancipation Jamaica
The article examines the influence of the U.S. Civil War and the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica on the composition of the landscape painting “Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica,” by U.S. artist Frederic Edwin Church. The author utilizes this examination of the painting in order to explain the ways in which Jamaican emancipation economically altered the nation's landscape. She notes the connection between race and colonial violence on the island while detailing the aesthetic representation of faith and doubt in Church's work.
