Publication
University of California Press (2022), Edition: First, 240 pages
ISBN
0520343263 / 9780520343269
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “Within a Few Steps of the Spot”: Art in an Age of Racial Capitalism
1. Grasping Images: Antislavery and the Sculptural
2. “The Mute Language of the Marble”: Slavery and Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave
3. Sentiment, Manufactured: John Bell and the Abolitionist Image under Empire
4. Relief Work: Edmonia Lewis and the Poetics of Plaster
5. Between Liberty and Emancipation: Francesco Pezzicar’s The Abolition of Slavery
Coda. “Sculptured Dream of Liberty”
Notes
List of Illustrations
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “Within a Few Steps of the Spot”: Art in an Age of Racial Capitalism
1. Grasping Images: Antislavery and the Sculptural
2. “The Mute Language of the Marble”: Slavery and Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave
3. Sentiment, Manufactured: John Bell and the Abolitionist Image under Empire
4. Relief Work: Edmonia Lewis and the Poetics of Plaster
5. Between Liberty and Emancipation: Francesco Pezzicar’s The Abolition of Slavery
Coda. “Sculptured Dream of Liberty”
Notes
List of Illustrations
Index