Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520262126)

This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. To understand Fuller's strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Ren e Ater examines the artist's contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (1907); Emancipation, a freestanding group for the National Emancipation Exposition (1913); and Ethiopia, the figure of a single female for the America's Making Exposition (1921). Ater argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture.

Author: Ren馥 Ater
ISBN-10: 0520262123
ISBN-13: 9780520262126
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2011
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.80w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012