Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Recommended.” * CHOICE *
“
Remaking Race and History is an important sourcebook on this otherwise under-recognized artist. . . . Provides an indication of the insights that such future investigations can yield.” * caa.reviews *
“Impressive and important. . . . The socio-historical details and contexts of Fuller’s life and art given throughout the book are well-researched and coherently presented. . . . Ater makes a noteworthy contribution to African American art history.” * Association of Historians of American Art *
"An exemplar of a more integrated art history. [Ater] is especially gifted with comparative stylistic and iconographic analysis of period sculpture." * Art Bulletin *
“
Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller goes a long way in correcting the glaring omission of one of the key African American woman artists of the twentieth century.” * Tikkun *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. “Foremost Sculptor of the Negro Race”
2. Segregation and Inclusion
3. Memory and Commemoration
4. Race and Americanization
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
