Remaking Race and History - The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-26212-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

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, Renée 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 on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ater, Renee

Ater, Renée

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. “Foremost Sculptor of the Negro Race”

2. Segregation and Inclusion

3. Memory and Commemoration

4. Race and Americanization

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Renée 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.