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The color of stone : sculpting the black female subject in nineteenth-century America

In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculpturecolor. Considering three major worksHiram Powerss Greek Slave, William Wetmore Storys Cleopatra, and Edmonia Lewiss Death of Cleopatrashe explores the intersection of race, sex...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Nelson, Charmaine (Awdur)
Fformat: Online Resource Llyfr
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2007
Mynediad Ar-lein:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv20h
Eitemau Perthynol:Print version: Color of stone
Nodiadau'r Awdur:Charmaine A. Nelson
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Dismembering the flock : difference and the "lady-artists"
  • "Taste" and the practices of cultural tourism : vision, proximity, and commemoration
  • "So pure and celestial a light" : sculpture, marble, and whiteness as a privileged racial signifier
  • White slaves and Black masters : appropriation and disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek slave
  • The color of slavery : degrees of blackness and the bodies of female slaves
  • Racing the body : reading blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra
  • The Black queen in the White body : Edmonia Lewis and the dead queen Conclusion : neoclassicism and the politics of race.