Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller

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Lee Ann Timreck Alex Bostic

Pieces of Freedom

The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller

Lee Ann Timreck, Alex Bostic

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English

University Press of Mississippi
15 August 2023

Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Gender studies: women; Ethnic studies; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warwick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844–1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877–1968).

Lewis's and Fuller’s sculptures—and their visual narrative of a people’s strength and humanity in the face of oppression—present a textured historical diorama of Black life during an era of transformative, yet sorrowful, events. In this book, Lee Ann Timreck integrates Lewis's and Fuller’s visual narrative with oral narratives of the newly emancipated, all set within the historical context of Reconstruction, segregation, and Jim Crow. The sculptures also reflect the artists’ gendered perspective of emancipation, conveying a strong narrative on the contributions and sacrifices made by newly freed Black women. These emancipation sculptures provide both a historical narrative of the Black emancipation experience and a moral narrative of America’s failure to create a nation where ""all men are created equal."" Pieces of Freedom challenges the twenty-first-century reader to learn and accept this history so we might address our nation’s lingering social and economic injustices.

By: Lee Ann Timreck
Afterword by: Alex Bostic
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781496845870
ISBN 10: 1496845870
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lee Ann Timreck is an independent folklorist and historical researcher. In 2016, Timreck completed George Mason University’s Graduate Certificate in Folklore Studies and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences on the the historiography of nineteenth-century African American art. In 2021, she presented ""Visualizing Emancipation Through the Language of Sculpture"" at the Popular Culture Association annual conference. Timreck also conducts historical research and produces finished biographies for Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond’s African American burial ground.

Reviews for Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller

Pieces of Freedom weaves an intelligent and critically engaged argument that bridges traditional art history and the narratives of vernacular expression found in African American folklore.--John Fenn III, folklorist