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Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art - The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis (Hardcover)
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Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art - The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis (Hardcover)
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Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821-1872) and Edward Bannister
(1828-1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844-1907) each
became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art
makers of color during the antebellum period, they experienced
numerous incidents of racism that severely hampered their pursuits
of a profession that many in the mainstream considered the highest
form of social cultivation. Despite barriers imposed upon them due
to their racial inheritance, these artists shared a common cause in
demanding acceptance alongside their white contemporaries as
capable painters and sculptors on local, regional, and
international levels. Author Naurice Frank Woods Jr. provides an
in-depth examination of the strategies deployed by Duncanson,
Bannister, and Lewis that enabled them to not only overcome
prevailing race and gender inequality, but also achieve a measure
of success that eventually placed them in the top rank of
nineteenth-century American art. Unfortunately, the racism that
hampered these three artists throughout their careers ultimately
denied them their rightful place as significant contributors to the
development of American art. Dominant art historians and art
critics excluded them in their accounts of the period. In this
volume, Woods restores their artistic legacies and redeems their
memories, introducing these significant artists to rightful, new
audiences.
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