{"product_id":"household-servants-and-slaves-a-visual-history-13001700-9780300234879","title":"Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History  13001700","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book-length study of household servants and slaves  exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents  The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture  Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History  13001700 covers four hundred years and four continents  facilitating a better understanding of the changes in service that occurred as Europe developed a monetary economy  global trade  and colonialism. Diane Wolfthal presents new interpretations of artists including the Limbourg brothers  Albrecht Drer  Paolo Veronese  and Diego Velzquez  but also explores numerous long-neglected objects  including independent portraits of ordinary servants  servant dolls and their miniature cleaning utensils  and dummy boards  candlesticks  and tablestands in the form of servants and slaves.  Wolfthal analyzes the intersection of class  race  and gender while also interrogating the ideology of service  investigating both the material conditions of household workers lives and the immaterial qualities with which they were associated. If images repeatedly relegated servants to the background  then this book does the reverse: it foregrounds these figures in order to better understand the ideological and aesthetic functions that they served.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666242134069,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300234872","price":38.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300234879.jpg?v=1782424679","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/household-servants-and-slaves-a-visual-history-13001700-9780300234879","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}