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Accomplished in All Departments of Art--Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874
Public and private artist/architect Billings was widely known and respected in the New England of his time, but has become almost forgotten in ours. Remaining close to original source material and keeping speculation to a minimum, this work reconstructs the contributions of Billings to American culture through an examination of his design of furniture, statuary, monuments, architecture, and public and private gardens, as well as his paintings, portraits, and book illustrations. An extensive number of illustrations are included throughout the text. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Uncle
From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a loyal Christian who died a martyr’s death. But soon after the best-selling novel a...
Racial Innocence
Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Children and Youth Winner, Book Award, Children's Literature Association Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association Winner, IRSCL Award, International Research Society for Children's Literature Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association Honorable Mention, Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial forma...
Alma Mater
**** Reprint of the Knopf original of 1985 (which is distinguished by inclusion in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
On the Boards
This collection of both famous and little-known nineteenth-century Boston architectural drawings offers a unique picture of the ideas behind the building of one of America's greatest cities.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture
"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.
Marcy, the Refugee
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Value in Art
"How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, "high in value" and "low in value." In this book, Henry Sayre traces the origins of this usage in one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, Manet's Olympia. Masterfully researched and argued, this bold study reveals the extraordinary weight of history and politics that Manet's painting bears, and the presence of slavery at modernism's roots. Sayre shows that it was Émile Zola who introduced a new "law of values" to art criticism in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of Zola's essay and of several related paintings of Manet, Sayre argues that Zola's use of the economic metaphor of "value" was doubly coded. On the one hand, it was a feint that deflected attention away from Olympia's actual subject and toward the painting's formal qualities. On the other, Sayre argues, "value" for Zola was a trope for the political economy of slavery and the Second Empire's complicity in the ongoing slave trade in the Americas. Value in Art is a surprising and necessary intervention in our understanding of modern art's emergence in relation to issues of race"--
Beacons of Liberty
The fascinating story of how free African Americans and runaway slaves crossed international borders to fight for freedom and racial justice.
