This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (18771968), one of the early twentieth century s few African American women artists. To understand Fuller s strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Renee 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...
This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (18771968), one of the early twentieth century s few Af...
