| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, and class to reveal the meanings each work holds in terms of colonial histories of visual representation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women, Black, in art.
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Figure sculpture, American -- 19th century
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Marble sculpture, American -- 19th century
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Sculpture, Neoclassical -- United States
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Race in art.
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Figure sculpture, American
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Marble sculpture, American
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Race in art
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Sculpture, Neoclassical
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Women, Black, in art
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816654147 |
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081665414X |
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