The shape of power : stories of race and American sculpture / Karen Lemmey, Tobias Wofford, Grace Yasumura ; contributions by Renée Ater, Jacqueline Francis, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Tess Korobkin, Jami Powell, James Smalls, Claudia Zapata.

Format Book
PublicationWashington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; Princeton : in association with Princeton University Press, [2024]
Copyright Date©2024
Description290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
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Other author/creatorLemmey, Karen, added author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmxQP49h9q6hGVTytDcyd
Other author/creatorWofford, Tobias, added author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFvHkvhwMQTx4FmxBC8Fq
Other author/creatorYasumura, Grace, added author.
Other author/creatorLemmey, Karen. Container of (work): Fragile fictions and hard truths in American sculpture.
Other author/creatorWofford, Tobias. Container of (work): Power of sculpture and politics of recognition.
Other author/creatorYasumura, Grace. Container of (work): Rupture, dismantle, transfigure.
Other author/creatorAter, Renée. Container of (work): Sculpture as mourning and protest.
Other author/creatorSmithsonian American Art Museum, organizer, host institution.
Portion of title Stories of race and American sculpture
Contents Part one. Interrogating sculpture histories. "Fragile fictions" and "hard truths" in American sculpture / Karen Lemmey -- The power of sculpture and politics of recognition, 1960s to now / Tobias Wofford -- Part two. Reclaiming the power of sculpture. American Modernism's slippery slope: classicism, primitivism, ethnography in sculpture / James Smalls -- Sculpture as mourning and protest / Renée Ater -- Strength and resistance in Native American women's sculpture / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Marion Perkin's Skywatcher: a post-atomic memorial for a "new world to be born" / Tess Korobkin -- The Chicana reclamation of the sleeping figure: Yolanda López's Mexican Chair and Judith F. Baca's Poncho / Claudia E. Zapata -- Rupture, dismantle, transfigure: making sculpture in the age of US-American empire / Grace Yasumura -- Intertwined histories and present realities : a conversation of possibilities / Jacqueline Francis, Jami Powell, and Grace Yasumura.
Abstract "This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same name that will open at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in November 2024. Through offerings from ten scholars focusing on a selection of some eighty sculptures made between 1793 and 2023 in a wide range of media, The Shape of Power is a portal into nuanced and complex ideas about the enduring power of sculpture as a potent tool in the making and unmaking of race in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
General note" ... on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, November 8, 2024, to September 14, 2025."--Title page verso.
General noteArtists include: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres ; Elia Alba ; Judith F. Baca ; Bryant Baker and Roman Bronze Works Inc. ; Rina Banerjee ; Richmond Barthé ; Ed Bereal ; Huma Bhabha ; Sanford Biggers ; Henry Kirke Brown ; Margarita Cabrera ; Angelo Cappuccio and Lodovico Pogliaghi ; Barbara Chase-Riboud ; Sonya Clark ; Jennifer Ling Datchuk ; Abastenia St. Léger Eberle ; Melvin Edwards ; Anita Fields ; James Earle Fraser ; James Earle Fraser with Laura Gardin Fraser ; Daniel Chester French ; Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ; Nicholas Galanin ; Aaron J. Goodelman ; Shan Goshorn ; Raven Halfmoon ; Bob Haozous ; Malvina Hoffman and Cellini Bronze Works ; Luis Jiménez ; Sargent Johnson ; Peter B. Jones ; Glenn Kaino ; Titus Kaphar ; Young Joon Kwak ; Julia Kwon ; Arthur Lee and Gorham Co. Foundry ; Simone Leigh ; Edmonia Lewis ; James Barton Longacre ; Yolanda López ; Cathy Lu ; Miguel Luciano ; Roberto Lugo ; Emanuel Martinez ; Jiha Moon ; Gabriela Muñoz and M. Jenea Sanchez ; Isamu Noguchi ; Virgil Ortiz ; Pepón Osorio ; Marion Perkins ; Luigi Persico ; Ferdinand Pettrich ; Hiram Powers ; Alexander Phimister Proctor and Gorham Co. Foundry ; Frederic Remington and Roman Bronze Works Inc. ; John Rogers ; Alison Saar ; Betye Saar ; Augusta Savage ; Joyce J. Scott ; Rose B. Simpson ; Maggie Thompson ; John Quincy Adams Ward and The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. ; Nari Ward ; Olin Levi Warner ; Adolph A. Weinman ; Fred Wilson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Shape of power Washington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum, [2024] 9780691261515
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LCCN 2024012440
ISBN9780691261492 (hardcover)
ISBN0691261490 (hardcover)
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Joyner Ronnie Barnes African American Collection NB205 .S53 2024 ✔ Available Place Hold