The color of stone : sculpting the black female subject in nineteenth-century America /

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In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculpturecolor. Considering three major worksHiram Powerss Greek Slave, William Wetmore Storys Cleopatra, and Edmonia Lewiss Death of Cleopatrashe explores the intersection of race, sex...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Charmaine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Temas:
1800-1899
Women, Black, in art.
Figure sculpture, American > 19th century.
Marble sculpture, American > 19th century.
Sculpture, Neoclassical > United States.
Race in art.
Femmes noires dans l'art.
Sculpture de figures humaines américaine > 19e siècle.
Sculpture en marbre américaine > 19e siècle.
Sculpture néoclassique > États-Unis.
Race dans l'art.
ART > Sculpture & Installation.
ART > History > General.
Figure sculpture, American
Marble sculpture, American
Race in art
Sculpture, Neoclassical
Women, Black, in art
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dismembering the flock : difference and the "lady-artists"
  • "Taste" and the practices of cultural tourism : vision, proximity, and commemoration
  • "So pure and celestial a light" : sculpture, marble, and whiteness as a privileged racial signifier
  • White slaves and Black masters : appropriation and disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek slave
  • The color of slavery : degrees of blackness and the bodies of female slaves
  • Racing the body : reading blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra
  • The Black queen in the White body : Edmonia Lewis and the dead queen Conclusion : neoclassicism and the politics of race.

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