Understanding History and Society through Images, 1776-1914

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. School Details
  3. Strategies
  4. Background Information
  5. Specific sculptures
  6. Contemporary artists
  7. Classroom activities
  8. Bibliography
  9. Notes

Making Art against the Odds: The Triumph of Edmonia Lewis

Kimberly Kellog Towne

Published September 2014

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Notes

1. http://www.artjunction.org/archives/looking@art.pdf

2. Kirsten Pai Buick, Child of the fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject. 1

3. Stephen Addiss and Mary Erickson, Art History and Education, xvii.

4. vtshome.org

5. http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/artwrite

6. Angela L. Miller, American Encounters: Art, History and Cultural Identity, 173

7. Miller, American Encounters, 173

8. Deborah Cherry, Beyond the frame: feminism and visual culture, 1850-1900, 110

9. Miller, American Encounters, 135

10. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Sharing traditions: 5 Black artists in 19 th century America: [from the coll. of the National Museum of American Art], 86

11. Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson, A history of African-American artists: from 1792 to the present, 55

12. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 87

13. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 59

14. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 87

15. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 60

16. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 61

17. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 62

18. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 88

19. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, p.60

20. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 61

21. http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2013/editions/aa.18641231.4.html

22. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 89

23. Harriet Hosmer, "The Process of Sculpture", The Atlantic Monthly, December 1864, pp. 734-737

24. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 90

25. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 64

26. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 75

27. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 76

28. http://www.artfixdaily.com/blogs/post/51-sculptors-death-unearthed-edmonia-lewis-died-in-london-in-1907

29. Bearden and Henderson, A history of African-American artists 77

30. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 89

31. Hartigan, Sharing traditions, 93

32. Kirsten Pai Buick, Child of the fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject, 198

33. Naurice Frank Woods, "An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876: Edmonia Lewis's." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 9, no. 1 (2008), 66

34. "Lost and Found: The Strange Case of the Resurrection of Edmonia Lewis' "The Death of Cleopatra"." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 13, no. Autumn (1996), 32-33

35. "Lost and Found: The Strange Case of the Resurrection of Edmonia Lewis' "The Death of Cleopatra"." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 13, no. Autumn (1996), 33

36. Bearden and H Henderson, A history of African-American artists, 54

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