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Moving Stones
About the Art of Edmonia Lewis

English · Hardback

Will be released 01.06.2026

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Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and theory, Jennifer DeVere Brody approaches Lewis’s legacy through a Black feminist and queer lens, illuminating how her sculptures and self-fashioning challenged constraints of her time. Living much of her life in Rome as a free Afro-Native woman, Lewis used neoclassical forms to carve out a life in art. Brody considers how Lewis’s works were viewed historically and how they resonate with postmodern artists, engaging themes of race, materiality, sexuality, and embodiment. Rethinking one of the most important sculptors of her era, Moving Stones shows how Lewis’s art continues to inspire contemporary artists and scholars today.


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Jennifer DeVere Brody is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies as well as African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play and Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture and the co-editor of James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man, all of which were published by Duke University Press.


Product details

Authors Jennifer DeVere Brody
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 01.06.2026
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history
 
EAN 9781478033639
ISBN 978-1-4780-3363-9
Pages 310
 
Subjects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Art & Art Instruction
ART / Movements / Modernism
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
 

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