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.