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Introduction. “Within a Few Steps of the Spot”: Art in an Age of Racial Capitalism
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Caitlin Meehye Beach
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction. “Within a Few Steps of the Spot”: Art in an Age of Racial Capitalism 1
- 1. Grasping Images: Antislavery and the Sculptural 21
- 2. “The Mute Language of the Marble”: Slavery and Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave 41
- 3. Sentiment, Manufactured: John Bell and the Abolitionist Image under Empire 77
- 4. Relief Work: Edmonia Lewis and the Poetics of Plaster 113
- 5. Between Liberty and Emancipation: Francesco Pezzicar’s The Abolition of Slavery 143
- Coda. “Sculptured Dream of Liberty” 163
- Notes 167
- List of Illustrations 211
- Index 215
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction. “Within a Few Steps of the Spot”: Art in an Age of Racial Capitalism 1
- 1. Grasping Images: Antislavery and the Sculptural 21
- 2. “The Mute Language of the Marble”: Slavery and Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave 41
- 3. Sentiment, Manufactured: John Bell and the Abolitionist Image under Empire 77
- 4. Relief Work: Edmonia Lewis and the Poetics of Plaster 113
- 5. Between Liberty and Emancipation: Francesco Pezzicar’s The Abolition of Slavery 143
- Coda. “Sculptured Dream of Liberty” 163
- Notes 167
- List of Illustrations 211
- Index 215
