The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Toward a Black Feminist Art History
PART I. Artists, Environs, Aesthetics
1. Dismembering the Flock: Difference and the "Lady-Artists"
2. "Taste" and the Practices of Cultural Tourism: Vision, Proximity, and Commemoration
3. "So Pure and Celestial a Light": Sculpture, Marble, and Whiteness as a Privileged Racial Signifier

PART II. From Slavery to Freedom
4. White Slaves and Black Masters: Appropriation and Disavowal in Hiram Powers's Greek Slave
5. The Color of Slavery: Degrees of Blackness and the Bodies of Female Slaves

PART III. Two Cleopatras
6. Racing the Body: Reading Blackness in William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra
7. The Black Queen in the White Body: Edmonia Lewis and the Dead Queen
Conclusion: Neoclassicism and the Politics of Race
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index