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Author Buick, Kirsten Pai, author.

Title Child of the fire : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject / Kirsten Pai Buick
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 297 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary An analysis of the prominent nineteenth century African American sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis in relation to issues of race and gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Lewis, Edmonia.
SUBJECT Lewis, Edmonia fast
Lewis, Edmonia 1844-1909 gnd
Lewis, Edmonia. nli
Lewis, Edmonia. swd
Subject African American sculptors.
Art, American -- Social aspects -- History
Art and society.
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
ART -- American -- African American.
African American sculptors
Art and society
African American sculptors.
Art, American -- Social aspects -- History.
Art and society.
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822391999
0822391996
1283065258
9781283065252
9786613065254
6613065250
Other Titles Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject