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Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller
Renée Ater
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Description for Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller
Hardback. Focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. This title argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 color illustrations and 63 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 262 x 19. Weight in Grams: 816.
This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. To understand Fuller's strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Renee Ater examines the artist's contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (1907); Emancipation, a freestanding group for the National Emancipation Exposition (1913); and Ethiopia, the figure of a single female for the America's Making Exposition (1921). Ater argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window ... Read more
This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. To understand Fuller's strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Renee Ater examines the artist's contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (1907); Emancipation, a freestanding group for the National Emancipation Exposition (1913); and Ethiopia, the figure of a single female for the America's Making Exposition (1921). Ater argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520262126
SKU
V9780520262126
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About Renée Ater
Renee Ater is Associate Professor of American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the author of Keith Morrison.
Reviews for Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller
"Recommended."
K.N. Pinder Choice "An important sourcebook on this otherwise under-recognized artist."
Linda Kim CAA Reviews "Impressive and important... Ater makes a noteworthy contribution to African American art history."
James Smalls, University of Maryland AHAA: Association Of Historians Of American Art "An examplar of a more integrated art history. [Ater] is especially gifted with compartive stylistic and ... Read more
K.N. Pinder Choice "An important sourcebook on this otherwise under-recognized artist."
Linda Kim CAA Reviews "Impressive and important... Ater makes a noteworthy contribution to African American art history."
James Smalls, University of Maryland AHAA: Association Of Historians Of American Art "An examplar of a more integrated art history. [Ater] is especially gifted with compartive stylistic and ... Read more