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Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery

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From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
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  • 15 November 2022
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From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery sheds light on the complex—and at times contradictory—place of such works as they moved through a world contoured both by the devastating economy of enslavement and by international abolitionist campaigns. By examining matters of making, circulation, display, and reception, Caitlin Meehye Beach argues that sculpture stood as a highly visible but deeply unstable site from which to interrogate the politics of slavery. With focus on works by Josiah Wedgwood, Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis, John Bell, and Francesco Pezzicar, Beach uncovers both the radical possibilities and the conflicting limitations of art in the pursuit of justice in racial capitalism's wake.

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Price: $60.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 15 November 2022
ISBN: 9780520390102
Format: eBook
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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