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An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876: Edmonia Lewis's The Death of Cleopatra
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 62–82.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. Abstract Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1843–after 1909) was America's first professional sculptor of African and Native American descent. She staked a claim at the highest level of neoclassical art. This usually meant competing against men who vehemently opposed women competing...
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Diasporadas: Black Women and the Fine Art of Activism
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 March 2002
... these European conventions. The historical record strongly suggests, for example, that in the United States at least, Black women artists took the lead in creating the most progressive representations of post-Emancipation Black identity. The first trained Black woman fine artist, sculptor Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1843...
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About the Contributors
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ELIZABETHCATLETTis a master sculptor, painter, printmaker, and activist best known for her work during the 1960s and 70s, when she created politically charged, black expressionistic sculptures and prints. Much of her work...
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Introduction
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of those hidden, excluded, or marginalized aspects of our interdisciplinary discourses. A significant yet understudied figure in American history is Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1843-after 1909),America's first professional sculptor of African and Native American descent. This neoclassical artist produced...
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Ghostwriting Transnational Histories in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the fourteen-year process through which the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens created the Shaw Memorial. Walters, too, cites Cliff's ekphrastic passages as important examples of how "Cliff's writing intervenes not only in history's written record but also in the ways that historical acts have been commemorated...
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Histories and Heresies: Engendering the Harlem Renaissance
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 September 2001
... incident involving sculptor Augusta Savage. Savage studied sculpting at the Cooper Union from 1921-24. In 1923 she won a fellowship to the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France, but was rejected when the U.S. sponsors learned she was black. Her case became a political cause celebre, and Du Bois...
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Size Matters: Figuring Gender in the (Black) Jamaican Nation
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 38–68.
Published: 01 September 2006
...," words inspired by Marcus Garvey and later popularized by Bob Marley. According to the sculptor, Laura Facey-Cooper, the RedemptionSongmonument represents healing, "the water washes away the pain, angst and suffering of slavery. The figures rise having transcended the past, standing in strength, unity...
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In Many Worlds: A Discussion with Egyptian Artist Sabah Naeem
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 146–162.
Published: 01 March 2002
... has been a favorite subject for Egyptian painters and sculptors since the beginning of the modern art movement in the early 1900s. Most artists say that this injunction applied more to the time of the Prophet, when there was a serious danger of people worshipping graven images. Nonetheless, teaching...
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Werewere Liking's Village Ki-Yi: Dissidence and Creativity in Abidjan
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 186–203.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., including actors, singers, dancers, sculptors, and painters (D'Almeida 2000, xiv). Today, Liking still lives, works, and creates with numerous other artists at the Village, a veritable "people's space." True to its name, the Village remains a tight-knit community within a vast urban 188 MERIDIANS 13:1...
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Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and “The Erotic” Through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 63–88.
Published: 01 April 2025
... the religious symbolism of mbari murals, while Sylvester O. Ogbechie ( 2005 ) examines mbari architecture and its impact on African art history. Evarest Onyewuchi Ibe ( 2019 ) utilizes mbari art to raise awareness about the Mbaise art style and encourage contemporary sculptors to embrace Indigenous art...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of verse that Espaillat has published in the last decade, I focus on a brief sampling of works from the collection And After All (2018), which appeared in print four years after the passing of her husband of over sixty years, the sculptor Alfred Moskowitz. I supplement the discussion with poems from Her...
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Panther Teacher: Sarah Webster Fabio’s Black Power
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of Negro Arts. The eminent African American artists Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Margaret Danner, Marion Williams, Alvin Ailey, Amiri Baraka, and Sarah Webster Fabio joined writers, dancers, sculptors, painters, and musicians from across the Black diaspora representing more than thirty countries...
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Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Buchert, a white German set designer and sculptor who lives near Berlin. He describes the installation on his website as “Slave Project / The human being as an object of trading / From 1685–1715 the principality of Brandenburg (the area around Berlin) took part in the international slave trade” (Buchert...
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