The Color of Stone

Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-century America

By: Charmaine A. Nelson

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Paperback | 11 July 2007

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Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works that represented black female subjects in compelling and problematic ways. Rejecting pigment as dangerous and sensual, adherence to white marble abandoned the racialization of the black body by skin color.

In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculpture-color. Considering three major works-Hiram Powers's Greek Slave, William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra, and Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra-she explores the intersection of race, sex, and class to reveal the meanings each work holds in terms of colonial histories of visual representation as well as issues of artistic production, identity, and subjectivity. She also juxtaposes these sculptures with other types of art to scrutinize prevalent racial discourses and to examine how the black female subject was made visible in high art.

By establishing the centrality of race within the discussion of neoclassical sculpture, Nelson provides a model for a black feminist art history that at once questions and destabilizes canonical texts.

Charmaine A. Nelson is assistant professor of art history at McGill University.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction: Toward a Black Feminist Art History	p. xi
Artists, Environs, Aesthetics
Dismembering the Flock: Difference and the "Lady-Artists"	p. 3
"Taste" and the Practices of Cultural Tourism: Vision, Proximity, and Commemoration	p. 45
"So Pure and Celestial a Light": Sculpture, Marble, and Whiteness as a Privileged Racial Signifier	p. 57
From Slavery to Freedom
White Slaves and Black Masters: Appropriation and Disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek Slave	p. 75
The Color of Slavery: Degrees of Blackness and the Bodies of Female Slaves	p. 113
Two Cleopatras
Racing the Body: Reading Blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra	p. 143
The Black Queen in the White Body: Edmonia Lewis and the Dead Queen	p. 159
Conclusion: Neoclassicism and the Politics of Race	p. 179
Acknowledgments	p. 185
Notes	p. 187
Index	p. 227
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