Buick Child of the Fire

Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9199-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buick, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten Pai Buick is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico.