Child of the Fire
Book description
Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated,…
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In researching Mary Edmonia Lewis, the nineteenth-century African-American sculptor I highlight in my book, I needed to understand Lewis as a person and as an artist.
Buick’s book explores Lewis’s art within the context of her life experiences and her passions, as well as how race and gender influenced her work. Although Lewis was our first African American and Native American sculptor, throughout her life Lewis was dismissed, praised, misunderstood, and eventually forgotten. Child of Fire gives voice to not only Lewis’ accomplishments, but explains the importance of her work to the canon of American art.
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