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10%OFFKirsten Buick - Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject - 9780822342663 - V9780822342663
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Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject

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Description for Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject Paperback. An argument against reductive accounts of the nineteenth-century sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis s work as the product of her identity as an African American and Native American woman. Num Pages: 344 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated, by others and the sculptor herself. She argues against the racialist art discourse that has long cast Lewis’s sculptures as reflections of her identity as an African American and Native American woman who lived most of her life abroad. Instead, by seeking to reveal Lewis’s intentions through analyses of her ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822342663
SKU
V9780822342663
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About Kirsten Buick
Kirsten Pai Buick is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico.

Reviews for Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject
“Buick provides the most comprehensive history of Lewis to date and a critical assessment of the discipline through close readings of primary sources and the leading scholarship on Lewis. . . . This volume is a crucial model for multiple disciplines. Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” - K. N. Pinder, Choice “[D]oing justice to the subject of Edmonia ... Read more

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