"Dr. Walter O. Evans first purchased a portfolio of prints by Jacob Lawrence in the late 1970s. Now, more than 20 years after acquiring his first piece of fine art, Dr. Evans owns a phenomenal collection that ranges from choice works by the expatriate artists Mary Edmonia Lewis and Henry Ossawa Tanner to noteworthy pieces by the celebrated innovators Charles White, Richard Hunt, and Archibald J. Motley, Jr. "The Evans Collection" also co ..."
"Highlights African American artists represented at The Art Institute of Chicago. Provides an overview of concerns surrounding race in art, celebrates the achievements of a number of artists, and provides a multifaceted view of American art and culture, with four essays and a stunning portfolio of 29 images illustrated in color, with brief entries examining individual works. Distributed by the University of Washington Press. Lacks a subj ..."
Child of the Fire Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject by KirstenBuick 297 Pages, Published 2009 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9199-9, ISBN: 0-8223-9199-6
"... ontological category.10 The tenuous fiction of race demanded and demands
clarity even as its “reality” (racism) continues to be produced at the level of culture
.11 There is no better example of that tenuous fiction than the belief that a white
woman can bear a black child but that a black woman cannot bear a white child.
12 Duncanson's biographer, Joseph D. Ketner, notes that the artist was “the first
African-American artist to ..."
Child of the Fire Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject by KirstenBuick Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-283-06525-2, ISBN: 1-283-06525-8
"Dr. Walter O. Evans first purchased a portfolio of prints by Jacob Lawrence in the late 1970s. Now, more than 20 years after acquiring his first piece of fine art, Dr. Evans owns a phenomenal collection that ranges from choice works by the expatriate artists Mary Edmonia Lewis and Henry Ossawa Tanner to noteworthy pieces by the celebrated innovators Charles White, Richard Hunt, and Archibald J. Motley, Jr. "The Evans Collection" also co ..."
"... John Ittmann , Dox Thrash : An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered ( Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art , in associa- tion with the University of Washington Press , 2001 ) , p . 44 . 7. For more on the controversy ..."
"Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are juxtaposed with literary practices involving some of the most prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well ..."
The Unforgettables Expanding the History of American Art by Charles C. Eldredge, Kirsten Pai Buick Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38555-9, ISBN: 0-520-38555-1
"Expanding the History of American Art Charles C. Eldredge. 360 philosophical content. They can be visually mesmerizing, while they also convey refined existential comment ... As quoted in Susan C. Larsen, “Charles Biederman and American ..."
"Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are j ..."
"This catalogue was published with Spelman College Museum of Fine Art with generous support from the Wish Foundation, Inc., and accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at Spelman from January 25 to May 19, 2018. It is edited by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, PhD, director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and features contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, PhD; Erin J. Gilbert; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD; Antwaun Sargent; an ..."
Child of the Fire Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick, Kristen Buick Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2010 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4266-3, ISBN: 0-8223-4266-9
"Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated, by others and the sculptor herself. She argues against the racialist art discourse that has long cas ..."
Child of the Fire(1st Edition) Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2010 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4247-2, ISBN: 0-8223-4247-2
"Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated, by others and the sculptor herself. She argues against the racialist art discourse that has long cas ..."
"The Hereditary Estate functions as a ten-year retrospective and as a conceptual work of art. Daniel Coburn's work investigates the family photo album employed as the visual infrastructure for the flawed ideology of the American Dream. Frustrated by the lack of images that document the true and sometimes troubling nature of his own familial history, the photographer set out to create a new archive, a potent supplement to the broken famil ..."