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The Last of the Tribes

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Description: The Last of the Tribes
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Description: Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
The tremendous popularity of The Greek Slave inspired other American sculptors to explore the subject of the endangered but ennobled female captive. Striving for artistic recognition and social respectability, these sculptors created works that told stories of fear and desire. Captive women, caught between two worlds, raised the question of the stability of...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.73-100
Description: Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic
Land, first to last, has been the currency of exchange between settlers and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Land as a source of gold, furs, fish, food or whatever commodity newcomers desired to enhance their wealth and power...
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.92-127
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00273.004

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