Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery

Caitlin Meehye Beach

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University of California Press
15 November 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; History of the Americas; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Series: The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series

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.

By: Caitlin Meehye Beach
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 9
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9780520343269
ISBN 10: 0520343263
Series: The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Caitlin Meehye Beach is Assistant Professor in Art History and Affiliated Faculty in African and African American Studies at Fordham University.