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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Charmaine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figure sculpture, American--19th century.

Figure sculpture, American.

Marble sculpture, American--19th century.

Marble sculpture, American.

Race in art.

Sculpture, Neoclassical--United States.

Sculpture, Neoclassical.

Women, Black, in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculptureÑcolor. Considering three major worksÑHiram PowersÕs Greek Slave, William Wetmore StoryÕs Cleopatra, and Edmonia LewisÕs Death of CleopatraÑshe explores the intersection of race, sex, and class to reveal the meanings each work holds in terms of colonial histories of visual representation.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5414-X

OCLC:

476140724