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Child of the fire : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject /

Buick, Kirsten Pai.

Child of the fire : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject / Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject Kirsten Pai Buick. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2010. - xxiv, 297 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inventing the artist : locating the Black and Catholic subject -- The "problem" of art history's Black subject -- Longfellow, Lewis, and the cultural work of Hiawatha -- Identity, tautology, and the death of Cleopatra.

9780822342472 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822342663 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009042227


Lewis, Edmonia.


African American sculptors.
Indian sculpture--North America.
Art, American--Social aspects--History.
Art and society.

NB237.L487 / B85 2010

730.92 B

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