Child of the Fire - Mary Edmonia Lewis Problem of Art History s Black Indian Subject

Informationen zum Autor Kirsten Pai Buick Klappentext ""Child of the Fire" is a tour de force. Kirsten Pai Buick has written a brilliant, historically and culturally grounded investigation into one of the most fascinating people of the nineteenth century. Despite the challenge of a subject as elusive and enigmatic as Mary Edmonia Lewis, Buick brings Lewis's work back where it belongs: into the fold of nineteenth-century American art, albeit from the vantage point of a knowing, African American, female, expatriate, Catholic iconoclast."--Richard J. Powell, author of "Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture" Zusammenfassung An argument against reductive accounts of the nineteenth-century sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewiss work as the product of her identity as an African American and Native American woman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations xi Preface. Framing the Problem: American Africanisms, American Indianisms, and the Processes of Art History xiii Acknowledgments xxiii 1. Inventing the Artist: Locating the Black and Catholic Subject 1 2. The "Problem" of Art History's Black Subject 31 3. Longellow, Lewis, and the Cultural Work of Hiawatha 77 4. Identity, Tautology, and The Death of Cleopatra 133 Conclusion. Separate and Unequal: Toward a More Responsive and Responsible Art History 209 Notes 215 Bibliography 257 Index 277

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Buick, Kirsten Pai Buick
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2010
• EAN: 9780822342663
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4266-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art; Amerika, Kunst, allgemein, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography / Autobiography, ART / Native American, ART / American / African American