Kirsten Buick

Child of the Fire

Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""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"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342663
• ISBN-10: 0822342669
• Artikelnr.: 28029281

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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