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Author:

Nelson, Charmaine.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxxv, 234 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Women, Black, in art.
Figure sculpture, American--19th century.
Marble sculpture, American--19th century.
Sculpture, Neoclassical--United States.
Race in art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780816646517 (pbk.)
0816646511 (pbk.)
0816646503 (hbk.)
9780816646500 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)79860597

LCCN:

2007001735

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)