Child of the fire
Subtitle: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject
By: Kirsten Pai Buick.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822342472; 9780822342663
Subjects: Lewis, Edmonia; African American sculptors; Art, American -- Social aspects -- History; Art and society
Other titles: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing the artist : locating the Black and Catholic subject; title: The "problem" of art history's Black subject; title: Longfellow, Lewis, and the cultural work of Hiawatha; title: Identity, tautology, and the death of Cleopatra.