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Hagar

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Description: Hagar

TitleHagar

Creator nameLewis, Edmonia

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1875

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/hagar-14627

Accession number1983.95.178

SubjectsAfrican American women artistsMarble sculpture, AmericanHistory of Biblical events--Art

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Chapter 8. Pattern: Behind the Face of an Iron

Description: Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED to contemplate the face of a common, household steam iron — that flat, shiny, metal surface in the shape of a bowed triangle, embedded with small holes arranged in a graphic pattern? By now, its formal connections to the slave ship icon might be easy to see. The curved triangular shape of the iron hints at the outline of the plan of the slave ship. The steam holes...

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

CopyrightCopyright © 2018 by Princeton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.195-210

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00260.009

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Chapter subject tags:Slave shipsCole, Willie, 1955-Porter, MarianettaSaar, BetyeVisual metaphorTransatlantic slave trade in artArt, American--21st centuryAfrican American artistsArtists, BlackWomen artists, BlackScarification (Body marking)Middle passage

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