Child of the Fire – Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History′s Black and Indian Subject
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822342663
ISBN-10: 0822342669
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color
Dimensiuni: 158 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822342669
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color
Dimensiuni: 158 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Recenzii
Kirsten Pai Buicks ambitions study of the nineteenth-century Afro-Native sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis is in fact two books in one. On the one hand it is a critique of the discipline of art history for its lack of serious engagement with Lewiss art and for its facile, obscuring attention to the artists biography. On the other Child of the Fire also succeeds as a detailed study of Lewiss art.... Thanks to Buicks smart and timely study, Lewiss art and career are with us, as we continue to give them the scrutiny they disserve. --Jennifer DeVere Brody, Womens Review of Books
Child of the Fire marks a dramatic change in how scholars approach artists marginalized by race, ethnicity, or gender. In the field of American art, most studies of such artists have assumed that their art directly expresses or reflects their racial, ethnic, and gender identities, usually understood in terms of late-twentieth-century identity politics. While these heroic narratives of self-expression and cultural resistance are a necessary first step in recovering such artists from oblivion, the time has come for a more sophisticated analysis of how these artists actually worked and what they achieved. Kirsten Pai Buick provides that.--Kirk Savage, author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
Child of the Fire is a tour de force. Kirsten Pai Buick has written a brilliant, historically and culturally grounded investigation into one of the most fascinating people of the nineteenth-century. Despite the challenge of a subject as elusive and enigmatic as Mary Edmonia Lewis, Buick brings Lewiss work back where it belongs: into the fold of nineteenth-century American art, albeit from the vantage point of a knowing, African American, female, expatriate, Catholic iconoclast.--Richard Powell, author of Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Rich in testimony to Lewis' impressive achievements as a facile manipulator of marble and white patrons, Buick's rigorously argued and refreshingly forthright inquiry articulates the challenges inherent in the sculptures of an enigmatic, determined, and courageous American artist.Donna Seaman, Booklist
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
This book is so tantalizing because, as Buick herself concludes, Lewis remains an enigma. . . . Despite the difficulties presented by the lack of archival materials, the quality of this study presents a challenge to art historians to avoid conversing with stereotype by doing our cultural and contextual homework.Jennifer Wingate, Womans Art Journal
[A] thoughtful, groundbreaking study that should be a must-read for anyone interested in art of the United States and in a nuanced treatment of race, ethnicity, and gender. Katherine Manthorne, CAA Reviews
Buicks book is groundbreaking in its reinterpretation of Lewis and her art. . . . Child of the Fire is a significant book because it reminds us to consider cultural context over simpler readings that merge racial and gender identity with interpretation of an artists work. Renée Ater, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"Kirsten Pai Buick's ambitions study of the nineteenth-century Afro-Native sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis is in fact two books in one. On the one hand it is a critique of the discipline of art history for its lack of serious engagement with Lewis's art and for its facile, obscuring attention to the artist's biography. On the other Child of the Fire also succeeds as a detailed study of Lewis's art... Thanks to Buick's smart and timely study, Lewis's art and career are with us, as we continue to give them the scrutiny they disserve. "--Jennifer DeVere Brody, Women's Review of Books "Child of the Fire marks a dramatic change in how scholars approach artists marginalized by race, ethnicity, or gender. In the field of American art, most studies of such artists have assumed that their art directly expresses or reflects their racial, ethnic, and gender identities, usually understood in terms of late-twentieth-century identity politics. While these heroic narratives of self-expression and cultural resistance are a necessary first step in recovering such artists from oblivion, the time has come for a more sophisticated analysis of how these artists actually worked and what they achieved. Kirsten Pai Buick provides that."--Kirk Savage, author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America "Child of the Fire is a tour de force. Kirsten Pai Buick has written a brilliant, historically and culturally grounded investigation into one of the most fascinating people of the nineteenth-century. Despite the challenge of a subject as elusive and enigmatic as Mary Edmonia Lewis, Buick brings Lewis's work back where it belongs: into the fold of nineteenth-century American art, albeit from the vantage point of a knowing, African American, female, expatriate, Catholic iconoclast."--Richard Powell, author of Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture "Rich in testimony to Lewis' impressive achievements as a 'facile manipulator of marble and white patrons,' Buick's rigorously argued and refreshingly forthright inquiry articulates the challenges inherent in the sculptures of an enigmatic, determined, and courageous American artist." - Donna Seaman, Booklist "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 "This book is so tantalizing because, as Buick herself concludes, Lewis remains an enigma... Despite the difficulties presented by the lack of archival materials, the quality of this study presents a challenge to art historians to avoid 'conversing with stereotype' by doing our cultural and contextual homework." - Jennifer Wingate, Woman's Art Journal "[A] thoughtful, groundbreaking study that should be a must-read for anyone interested in art of the United States and in a nuanced treatment of race, ethnicity, and gender." - Katherine Manthorne, CAA Reviews "Buick's book is groundbreaking in its reinterpretation of Lewis and her art... Child of the Fire is a significant book because it reminds us to consider cultural context over simpler readings that merge racial and gender identity with interpretation of an artist's work." - Renee Ater, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Child of the Fire marks a dramatic change in how scholars approach artists marginalized by race, ethnicity, or gender. In the field of American art, most studies of such artists have assumed that their art directly expresses or reflects their racial, ethnic, and gender identities, usually understood in terms of late-twentieth-century identity politics. While these heroic narratives of self-expression and cultural resistance are a necessary first step in recovering such artists from oblivion, the time has come for a more sophisticated analysis of how these artists actually worked and what they achieved. Kirsten Pai Buick provides that.--Kirk Savage, author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
Child of the Fire is a tour de force. Kirsten Pai Buick has written a brilliant, historically and culturally grounded investigation into one of the most fascinating people of the nineteenth-century. Despite the challenge of a subject as elusive and enigmatic as Mary Edmonia Lewis, Buick brings Lewiss work back where it belongs: into the fold of nineteenth-century American art, albeit from the vantage point of a knowing, African American, female, expatriate, Catholic iconoclast.--Richard Powell, author of Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Rich in testimony to Lewis' impressive achievements as a facile manipulator of marble and white patrons, Buick's rigorously argued and refreshingly forthright inquiry articulates the challenges inherent in the sculptures of an enigmatic, determined, and courageous American artist.Donna Seaman, Booklist
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
This book is so tantalizing because, as Buick herself concludes, Lewis remains an enigma. . . . Despite the difficulties presented by the lack of archival materials, the quality of this study presents a challenge to art historians to avoid conversing with stereotype by doing our cultural and contextual homework.Jennifer Wingate, Womans Art Journal
[A] thoughtful, groundbreaking study that should be a must-read for anyone interested in art of the United States and in a nuanced treatment of race, ethnicity, and gender. Katherine Manthorne, CAA Reviews
Buicks book is groundbreaking in its reinterpretation of Lewis and her art. . . . Child of the Fire is a significant book because it reminds us to consider cultural context over simpler readings that merge racial and gender identity with interpretation of an artists work. Renée Ater, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"Kirsten Pai Buick's ambitions study of the nineteenth-century Afro-Native sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis is in fact two books in one. On the one hand it is a critique of the discipline of art history for its lack of serious engagement with Lewis's art and for its facile, obscuring attention to the artist's biography. On the other Child of the Fire also succeeds as a detailed study of Lewis's art... Thanks to Buick's smart and timely study, Lewis's art and career are with us, as we continue to give them the scrutiny they disserve. "--Jennifer DeVere Brody, Women's Review of Books "Child of the Fire marks a dramatic change in how scholars approach artists marginalized by race, ethnicity, or gender. In the field of American art, most studies of such artists have assumed that their art directly expresses or reflects their racial, ethnic, and gender identities, usually understood in terms of late-twentieth-century identity politics. While these heroic narratives of self-expression and cultural resistance are a necessary first step in recovering such artists from oblivion, the time has come for a more sophisticated analysis of how these artists actually worked and what they achieved. Kirsten Pai Buick provides that."--Kirk Savage, author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America "Child of the Fire is a tour de force. Kirsten Pai Buick has written a brilliant, historically and culturally grounded investigation into one of the most fascinating people of the nineteenth-century. Despite the challenge of a subject as elusive and enigmatic as Mary Edmonia Lewis, Buick brings Lewis's work back where it belongs: into the fold of nineteenth-century American art, albeit from the vantage point of a knowing, African American, female, expatriate, Catholic iconoclast."--Richard Powell, author of Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture "Rich in testimony to Lewis' impressive achievements as a 'facile manipulator of marble and white patrons,' Buick's rigorously argued and refreshingly forthright inquiry articulates the challenges inherent in the sculptures of an enigmatic, determined, and courageous American artist." - Donna Seaman, Booklist "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 "This book is so tantalizing because, as Buick herself concludes, Lewis remains an enigma... Despite the difficulties presented by the lack of archival materials, the quality of this study presents a challenge to art historians to avoid 'conversing with stereotype' by doing our cultural and contextual homework." - Jennifer Wingate, Woman's Art Journal "[A] thoughtful, groundbreaking study that should be a must-read for anyone interested in art of the United States and in a nuanced treatment of race, ethnicity, and gender." - Katherine Manthorne, CAA Reviews "Buick's book is groundbreaking in its reinterpretation of Lewis and her art... Child of the Fire is a significant book because it reminds us to consider cultural context over simpler readings that merge racial and gender identity with interpretation of an artist's work." - Renee Ater, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
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Textul de pe ultima copertă
""Child of the Fire" is a tour de force. Kirsten Pai Buick has written a brilliant, historically and culturally grounded investigation into one of the most fascinating people of the nineteenth century. Despite the challenge of a subject as elusive and enigmatic as Mary Edmonia Lewis, Buick brings Lewis's work back where it belongs: into the fold of nineteenth-century American art, albeit from the vantage point of a knowing, African American, female, expatriate, Catholic iconoclast."--Richard J. Powell, author of "Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture"
Cuprins
Illustrations xi
Preface. Framing the Problem: American Africanisms, American Indianisms, and the Processes of Art History xiii
Acknowledgments xxiii
1. Inventing the Artist: Locating the Black and Catholic Subject 1
2. The "Problem" of Art History's Black Subject 31
3. Longellow, Lewis, and the Cultural Work of Hiawatha 77
4. Identity, Tautology, and The Death of Cleopatra 133
Conclusion. Separate and Unequal: Toward a More Responsive and Responsible Art History 209
Notes 215
Bibliography 257
Index 277
Preface. Framing the Problem: American Africanisms, American Indianisms, and the Processes of Art History xiii
Acknowledgments xxiii
1. Inventing the Artist: Locating the Black and Catholic Subject 1
2. The "Problem" of Art History's Black Subject 31
3. Longellow, Lewis, and the Cultural Work of Hiawatha 77
4. Identity, Tautology, and The Death of Cleopatra 133
Conclusion. Separate and Unequal: Toward a More Responsive and Responsible Art History 209
Notes 215
Bibliography 257
Index 277
Descriere
An analysis of the prominent nineteenth century African American sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis in relation to issues of race and gender.