Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller

by Renée Ater and Rene Ater

Book Overview

This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. To understand Fuller's strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Ren e Ater examines the artist's contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (1907); Emancipation, a freestanding group for the National Emancipation Exposition (1913); and Ethiopia, the figure of a single female for the America's Making Exposition (1921). Ater argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520385373
• ISBN13: 9780520385375
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"