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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.
African American sculptors. --- Art, American --- Art and society. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Lewis, Edmonia.
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Based primarily on decades of research by Harry Henderson (co-author of A History of African American Artists from 1792 to the Present), this fresh look at the facts of Edmonia Lewis's life and art discusses how she helped shape today's world. Edmonia Lewis was the first famous "colored sculptor" and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through 1878, and, as an artist, was a rare instrument for social change in the aftermath of the Civil War. She pressed her case for equality from her studio in Rome, Italy, and with annual tours of the United States. Her biography is based on private letters, public documents, essays, hundreds of news items, reviews of her work, museum collections, and more than two dozen published interviews. It reveals how a world biased against her color, class, gender and religion received her. Of special interest to African-American and American-Indian studies, as well as art, women's, and American history, the narrative opens an abundance of previously unrecognized sources, reinterprets important relationships, names missing works, and corrects the identification of an important portrait. Students of the nineteenth century will find it a cool counterpoint to the bitter rage of Civil War and Reconstruction. Readers familiar with her legendary icons of race may be surprised by her many portraits and her untold moves to Paris and London. They will also find answers to long-standing questions: Where, when, and how did she die? Why did her encounter with a bronze Ben Franklin leave her reeling? Why did she idealize a woman with African features only once in her career? Why did she never cite the now-famous Forever Free after her first interviews in Rome? Why did she have to stalk Henry Wadsworth Longfellow through the streets to make his portrait? Where was her studio? How often did she tour America? How did she enter her work in the 1876 Centennial expo, which had barred colored people absolutely? What were her relationships with fans, mentors, and fellow sculptors? Who were her rivals, her best friends, and her worst enemies? Fresh evidence, never before collected and collated, argues a novel motive for her erotic masterwork, the Death of Cleopatra, which sits apart in her oeuvre like a hussy in a small town church. Newly realized sources also change our view of her childhood and provide ample support to refute distortions of her personal character, sexuality, and appearance.
African American women artists --- African American sculptors --- Lewis, Edmonia. --- Afro-American sculptors --- Sculptors, African American --- Sculptors --- Afro-American women artists --- Women artists, African American --- Women artists --- Lewis, Mary Edmonia --- Wildfire --- Ish-scoodah --- Fire Flower
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Iconography --- Art --- art [discipline] --- culturele diversiteit (kunst) --- Tanner, Henry Ossawa --- Catlett, Elizabeth --- Bannister, Edward Mitchell --- Delaney, Beauford --- Biggers, John --- Crite, Allan Rohan --- Duncanson, Robert Scott --- Edmondson, William --- Evans, Minnie --- Gilliam, Sam --- Hampton, James --- Hayden, Palmer --- Hunt, Richard --- Johnson, Joshua --- Johnson, Sargent --- Johnson, William H. --- Jones, Frank --- Jones, Loïs Mailou --- Lewis, Edmonia --- Morgan, Sister Gertrude --- Morrison, Keith --- Porter, James A. --- Savage, Augusta --- Thomas, Alma --- Thompson, Bob --- Traylor, Bill --- Woodruff, Hale --- Yoakum, Joseph --- Brown, Frederick --- Lawrence, Jacob --- Bearden, Romare --- National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery [Washington, D.C.] --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America
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political art --- jazz --- civil rights --- Art --- African American --- Harlem Renaissance --- art [fine art] --- primitivism [artistic concept] --- migration [function] --- racial discrimination --- motion pictures [visual works] --- Hartt, David --- Chase-Riboud, Barbara --- Johnson, Malvin Gray --- Marshall, Kerry James --- Lewis, Edmonia --- Smith, Albert --- White, Charles --- Thrash, Dox --- Thompson, Bob --- Micheaux, Oscar --- Delaney, Beauford --- Thomas, Hank Willis --- Motley, Archibald J. --- Basquiat, Jean-Michel --- Bearden, Romare --- Lawrence, Jacob --- Saunders, Raymond --- Overstreet, Joe --- Duncanson, Robert Scott --- Tanner, Henry Ossawa --- Dial, Thornton --- Driskell, David C. --- Bey, Dawoud --- Lovell, Whitfield --- Gallagher, Ellen --- Pippin, Horace --- Lewis, Norman --- Ligon, Glenn --- Hammons, David --- Gammon, Reginald --- Thomas, Alma --- Alston, Charles H. --- Jones, Loïs Mailou --- Barthé, Richmond --- Catlett, Elizabeth --- Saar, Betye --- Amos, Emma --- Douglas, Aaron --- Andrews, Benny --- Drake, David --- Hayden, Palmer --- Wells, James Lesesne --- Douglas, Emory --- Colescott, Robert --- Savage, Augusta --- Thomas, Mickalene --- Ellison, Walter --- Clark, Claude --- Ringgold, Faith --- Harrington, Oliver Wendell --- Smith, Mary T. --- Crite, Allan Rohan --- Bois, du, W.E. Burghardt --- Johnson, William H. --- Jennings, Wilmer --- anno 2000-2099 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1899 --- United States --- Woodruff, Hale --- Williams, Bert --- Afro-Amerikaanse kunst --- discriminatie --- zwarten --- Wereldoorlog I --- Wereldoorlog II --- geschiedenis --- racisme --- burgerrechten --- primitivisme --- Wereldtentoonstelling 1900 (Parijs) --- Crow, Jim --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Louis, Joe --- Gammon, Reginald A. (Jr.) --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- Amerika --- Parijs --- Frankrijk --- Bois, Du, W.E.B. --- African American art --- Afro-Amerikaanse kunst. --- discriminatie. --- zwarten. --- Wereldoorlog I. --- Wereldoorlog II. --- geschiedenis. --- racisme. --- burgerrechten. --- primitivisme. --- Wereldtentoonstelling 1900 (Parijs). --- Crow, Jim. --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. --- Pippin, Horace. --- Louis, Joe. --- Bearden, Romare. --- Catlett, Elizabeth. --- Lewis, Norman. --- Gammon, Reginald A. (Jr.). --- Thomas, Alma. --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw. --- Amerika. --- Parijs. --- Frankrijk. --- art [discipline] --- United States of America
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Art, American --- Art --- Catalogs --- National Museum of American Art (U.S.) --- Smithsonian Institution. --- NMAA --- United States. --- N.M.A.A. --- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) --- Smithsonian American Art Museum --- Catalogs. --- art [fine art] --- Cole, Thomas --- Church, Frederic Edwin --- Greenough, Horatio --- Powers, Hiram --- Crawford, Thomas --- Manship, Paul --- Guglielmi, O. Louis --- Ryder, Albert Pinkham --- Kent, Rockwell --- Soyer, Raphael --- Truitt, Anne --- Voulkos, Peter --- Fellig, Arthur --- Remington, Frédéric --- Paik, Nam June --- Kuniyoshi, Yasuo --- Albers, Anni --- Teraoka, Masami --- Tanner, Henry Ossawa --- Eggleston, William --- Catlett, Elizabeth --- Pepper, Beverly --- Roszak, Theodore J. --- Stankiewicz, Richard --- Adams, Kenneth M. --- Adams, Mary --- Hopper, Edward --- Archuleta, Felipe Benito --- Arneson, Robert --- Awa Tshireh --- Bannister, Edward Mitchell --- Beaux, Cecilia --- Besharo, Peter Charlie --- Bicknell, Albian Harris --- Bierstadt, Albert --- Biggers, John --- Bischoff, Elmer --- Blakelock, Ralph Albert --- Bojórquez, Chaz --- Bridgman, Frederich Arthur --- Brooks, Romaine --- Brown, Henry Kirke --- Brown, Roger --- Burchfield, Charles --- Sargent, John Singer --- Cadmus, Paul --- Callahan, Harry --- Carpenter, Miles --- Castle, Wendell --- Cederquist, John --- Colman, Samuel --- Conner, Lois --- Cook, Howard Norton --- Cottingham, Robert --- Criss, Francis H. --- Crite, Allan Rohan --- Cropsey, Jasper Francis --- Curry, John Steuart --- Daingerfield, Elliott --- Davis, Gene --- Vore, De, Richard --- DeCarava, Roy --- Hartley, Marsden --- Dewing, Maria Oakey --- Dial, Thornton --- Dionisio, Humberto --- Dominick, Irving --- Dreisbach, Fritz --- Drewes, Werner --- Edmondson, William --- Evans, Minnie --- Segal, George --- Feitelson, Lorser --- Finster, Howard --- Fuente, Larry --- Gilliam, Sam --- Gornik, April --- Greene, Gertrude --- Gropper, William --- Grossmann, Sid --- Halverson, Karen --- Hampton, James --- Hartigan, Grace --- Hawkins, William L. --- Hennings, Ernst Martin --- Henri, Robert --- Hernández, Ester --- Herrera, Velino Shije --- Higgins, Victor --- Holmes, William Henry --- Holty, Carl Robert --- Hosmer, Harriet --- Huntington, Daniel --- Hurwitz, Michael --- Ives, Chauncey Bradley --- Jackson, Daniel --- Jaffee, Jay --- Jimenez, Luis [jr.] --- Johnson, Lester --- Johnson, William H. --- Jones, Frank --- Jones, Loïs Mailou --- Jones, S.L. --- Jonson, Raymond --- Kainen, Jacob --- Tiffany, Louis C. --- Kirk, Frank Cohen --- Klett, Mark --- Kloss, Gene --- Farge, La, John --- Laughlin, Clarence John --- Lazzell, Blanche --- Lee-Smith, Hughie --- Legrady, George --- Leigh, William Robinson --- Lepkoff, Rebecca --- Levinthal, David --- Lewis, Edmonia --- Whistler, James Abbott McNeill --- Littleton, Harvey K. --- Long, McKendree Robbins --- López, George --- Lundeberg, Helen --- MacMonnies, Frederick William --- Maldonado, Alexander A. --- Maloof, Sam --- Marsh, Reginald --- Martin, Homer Dodge --- Martinez, Emanuel --- Martinez, Maria --- Matulka, Jan --- Mawdsley, Richard --- Mayer, Frank Blackwell --- Mazur, Michael --- McQueen, John --- Meatyard, Ralph --- Mehring, Howard --- Metzker, Ray --- Mitchell, Bruce --- Moran, Mary Nimmo --- Morgan, Sister Gertrude --- Moroles, Jesús Bautista --- Nakashima, George --- Nilsson, Gladys --- Wesselmann, Tom --- Ortega, José Benito --- Osgood, Jere --- Paley, Albert --- Park, David --- Pearce, Charles Sprague --- Penn, Irving --- Pereira, Irene Rice --- Pettrich, Ferdinand --- Pfahl, John --- Prendergast, Maurice --- Ramírez, Martín --- Rankaitis, Susan --- Roloff, John --- Romero, Frank --- Roybal, Josefa --- Savitsky, Jack --- Säyen, Henry Lyman --- Schira, Cynthia --- Serl, Jon --- Sharp, JoJoseph Henry --- Sharrer, Honoré --- Sheets, Millard --- Shimomura, Roger --- Shinn, Everett --- Siskind, Aaron --- Smith, Jacob Getlar --- Soyer, Moses --- Spencer, Lily Martin --- Stettner, Louis --- Story, William Wetmore --- Sullivan, Patrick J. --- Tait, Agnes --- Tawney, Lenore --- Taylor, Bill --- Thayer, Abbott Handerson --- Thomas, Alma --- Tolson, Edgar --- Tooker, George --- Treviño, Jesse --- Trousset, Leon --- Twachtman, John Henry --- Ufer, Walter --- Vedder, Elihu --- Weinman, Adolph Alexander --- Weir, Julian Alden --- Whittredge, Thomas Worthington --- Wiles, Irving Ramsay --- Willeto, Charlie --- Yoakum, Joseph --- Yoshida, Ray --- Zorach, William --- Guston, Philippe --- Kline, Franz --- Abbott, Berenice --- Hofmann, Hans --- Louis, Morris --- Martínez, Julián --- Noguchi, Isamu --- Wood, Beatrice --- Christenberry, William --- Rauschenberg, Robert --- Inness, George --- Motherwell, Robert --- Bochner, Mel --- Close, Chuck --- Diebenkorn, Richard --- Fischl, Eric --- Kelly, Ellsworth --- Kruger, Barbara --- Nutt, Jim --- Rivers, Larry --- Stout, Renée --- Wiley, William --- Wyeth, Andrew --- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus --- Homer, Winslow --- Still, Clyfford --- Frankenthaler, Helen --- Davis, Stuart --- Steir, Pat --- Brown, Frederick --- Burson, Nancy --- Chase, William Merrit --- Crawford, Ralston --- Dewing, Thomas Wilmer --- Eakins, Thomas --- Golub, Leon Albert --- Hassam, Childe --- Indiana, Robert --- Johnson, Eastman --- Krasner, Lee --- Lawrence, Jacob --- Lozowick, Louis --- Moran, Thomas --- Noland, Kenneth --- Oliveira, Nathan --- Weber, Max --- Woodman, Betty --- Benton, Thomas Hart --- Levitt, Helen --- Couse, Eanger Irving --- Hunt, Bryan --- Bearden, Romare --- Man Ray --- Kooning, de, Willem --- Cornell, Joseph --- National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery [Washington, D.C.] --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Bicknell, Albion Harris --- Burchfield, Charles E. --- art [discipline] --- Bridgman, Frederick Arthur --- United States of America
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