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Child of the fire : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject / Kirsten Pai Buick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buick, Kirsten Pai.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis, Edmonia.
- African American sculptors.
- Art, American--Social aspects--History.
- Art, American.
- Art and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Other Title:
- Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An argument against reductive accounts of the nineteenth-century sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis s work as the product of her identity as an African American and Native American woman.
- Contents:
- Inventing the artist : locating the Black and Catholic subject
- The "problem" of art history's Black subject
- Longfellow, Lewis, and the cultural work of Hiawatha
- Identity, tautology, and the death of Cleopatra.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065254
- 9781283065252
- 1283065258
- 9780822391999
- 0822391996
- OCLC:
- 645146968
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