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The Words and Wares of David Drake : Revisiting I Made This Jar and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery / edited by Jill Beute Koverman and Jane Przybysz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dave, active 1834-1864--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dave.
- Dave, active 1834-1864.
- Stoneware.
- South Carolina--Edgefield.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- I made this jar
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- A celebration of an enslaved potter's art and the poetry he inscribed in clay despite anti-literacy laws.
- Contents:
- Cover
- THE WORDS AND WARES OF DAVID DRAKE
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword to I Made This Jar (1998)
- Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition
- Introduction
- PART ONE I MADE THIS JAR
- I Made This Jar
- Searching for Messages in Clay: What Do We Really Know About the Poetic Potter, Dave?
- Edgefield, South Carolina: Home to Dave the Potter
- Dave the Potter and the Origins of African American Poetry
- Talking Jars: Dave and Larger Traditions of Pot-Poetry
- Archaeological Findings Related to Dave at Edgefield Pottery Sites
- Dave's Verse as Social Response
- Catalog of Exhibition Objects, I Made This Jar, McKissick Museum, 1998
- PART TWO I MADE THIS JAR REVISITED
- There Once Was a Man Named Dave . . .
- Black Artists as Cultural Historians: Jonathan Green, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Drake
- Embodying Dave: Performance and the Creation of an Artistic, Para-Historical Narrative
- Marking Time: The Dated Vessels of David Drake
- The Last Dave Pot?
- Who Were the Potters in the Old Edgefield District?
- "The Unknown Potter": Continuing the Search for Dave
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Amendments to the Original Exhibition Catalog Text
- Appendix B: Edgefield District African American Potters and Associated Laborers (1790-1900)
- Appendix C: Inventory of Dated Vessels
- Appendix D: Known Inscriptions Incised by and Attributed to David Drake
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781643363226
- 1643363220
- OCLC:
- 1407276990
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