Child of the fire
Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject
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Author
Publication
2010 - Duke University Press, Durham, NC, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
74,250 words, Guess
Page Count
297 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780822342472
- ISBN-139780822342663
- ISBN-100822342472
- ISBN-100822342669
- WikidataQ57233243
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009042227
- OCLC Control Number456729618
- Better World Books9780822342663
- Better World Books9780822342472
- Open LibraryOL24379383M
Classifications
- DDC730.92
- DDCB
- LCCNB237.L487 B85 2010
and 1 more
- LCCNB237.L487B85 2010
Alternate Titles
- Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject
Description
"Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated, by others and the sculptor herself. She argues against the racialist art discourse that has long cast Lewis' sculptures as reflections of her identity as an African American and Native American woman who lived most of her life abroad. Instead, by seeking to reveal Lewis' intentions through analyses of her career and artwork, Buick illuminates Lewis' fraught but active participation in the creation of a distinct 'American' national art, one dominated by themes of indigeneity, sentimentality, gender, and race"--Publisher description.
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