Remaking Race and History

by Ater, Renee

• ISBN13: 9780520262126
• ISBN10: 0520262123
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-22
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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, Reneacute;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); andEthiopia, 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
"Foremost Sculptor of the Negro Race"	p. 9
Segregation and Inclusion	p. 37
Memory and Commemoration	p. 73
Race and Americanization	p. 101
Epilogue	p. 133
Acknowledgments	p. 139
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 169
List of Illustrations	p. 189
Index	p. 193
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