The color of stone
Subtitle: sculpting the black female subject in nineteenth-century America
By: Charmaine A. Nelson.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780816646517; 9780816646500
Subjects: Women, Black, in art; Figure sculpture, American -- 19th century; Marble sculpture, American -- 19th century; Sculpture, Neoclassical -- United States; Race in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dismembering the flock: difference and the "lady-artists"; title: "Taste" and the practices of cultural tourism: vision, proximity, and commemoration; title: "So pure and celestial a light": sculpture, marble, and whiteness as a privileged racial signifier; title: White slaves and Black masters: appropriation and disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek slave; title: The color of slavery: degrees of blackness and the bodies of female slaves; title: Racing the body: reading blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra; title: The Black queen in the White body: Edmonia Lewis and the dead queen; title: Conclusion: neoclassicism and the politics of race.