4. Relief Work: Edmonia Lewis and the Poetics of Plaster

Chapters in this book

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