The color of stone : sculpting the black female subject in nineteenth-century America
Charmaine A. Nelson
| Year of publication: |
c2007
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| Authors: | Nelson, Charmaine |
| Publisher: |
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press |
| Subject: | Schwarze Menschen | Black people | Weibliche Arbeitskräfte | Women workers | Frauen | Women |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
Online Resource
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (xxxv, 234 p) ill |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Toward a Black Feminist Art History; PART I. ARTISTS, ENVIRONS, AESTHETICS; 1. Dismembering the Flock: Difference and the "Lady-Artists"; 2. "Taste" and the Practices of Cultural Tourism: Vision, Proximity, and Commemoration; 3. "So Pure and Celestial a Light": Sculpture, Marble, and Whiteness as a Privileged Racial Signifier; PART II. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM; 4. White Slaves and Black Masters: Appropriation and Disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek Slave; 5. The Color of Slavery: Degrees of Blackness and the Bodies of Female Slaves PART III. TWO CLEOPATRAS6. Racing the Body: Reading Blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra; 7. The Black Queen in the White Body: Edmonia Lewis and the Dead Queen; Conclusion: Neoclassicism and the Politics of Race; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4650-0 ; 0-8166-4651-1 ; 0-8166-4650-3 ; 978-0-8166-4651-7 ; 978-0-8166-5414-7 ; 978-0-8166-4650-0 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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