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The Color of Stone

Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-century America

By: Charmaine Nelson,Nima Naghibi

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The Color of Stone

Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-century America

By: Charmaine Nelson,Nima Naghibi

Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works that represented black female subjects in compelling and problematic ways. Rejecting pigment as dangerous and sensual, adherence to white marble abandoned the racialization of the black body by skin color. In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculpture--color. Considering three major works--Hiram Powers's Greek Slave, William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra, and Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra--she explores the intersection of race, sex, and class to reveal the meanings each work holds in terms of colonial histories of visual representation as well as issues of artistic production, identity, and subjectivity. She also juxtaposes these sculptures with other types of art to scrutinize prevalent racial discourses and to examine how the black female subject was made visible in high art. By establishing the centrality of race within the discussion of neoclassical sculpture, Nelson provides a model for a black feminist art history that at once questions and destabilizes canonical texts. Charmaine A. Nelson is assistant professor of art history at McGill University.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145291317X

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Women Write Iran

Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

By: Nima Naghibi

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Women Write Iran

Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

By: Nima Naghibi

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past. Naghibi is particularly interested in writing as both an expression of memory and an assertion of human rights. She discovers that writing life narratives contributes to the larger enterprise of righting historical injustices. By drawing on the empathy of the reader/spectator/witness, Naghibi contends, life narratives offer the possibilities of connecting to others and responding with an increased commitment to social justice. The book opens with an examination of how the widely circulated video footage of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan on the streets of Tehran in June 2009 triggered the articulation of life narratives by diasporic Iranians. It concludes with a discussion of the prominent place of the 1979 revolution in these narratives. Throughout, the focus is on works that have become popular in the West, such as Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling graphic novel Persepolis. Naghibi addresses the significant questions raised by these works: How do we engage with human rights and social justice as readers in the West? How do these narratives draw our attention and elicit our empathic reactions? And what is our responsibility as witnesses to trauma, atrocity, and human suffering?

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1452950032

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Women Write Iran

Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

By: Nima Naghibi

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Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

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Rethinking Global Sisterhood

Western Feminism and Iran

By: Nima Naghibi

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Rethinking Global Sisterhood

Western Feminism and Iran

By: Nima Naghibi

Nima Naghibi makes powerful connections among feminism, imperialism, and the discourses of global sisterhood. Naghibi investigates topics including the state-sponsored Womens Organization of Iran and the involvement of feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the Iranian feminism movement. She also examines the veiled woman in the films of Tahmineh Milani, Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kim Longinotto, and Mahnaz Afzali.

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0816654220

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9780816654222

The Color of Stone

Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-century America

By: Charmaine Nelson,Nima Naghibi

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Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-century America

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Shirin Neshat: Women in Society

By: Heide Barrenechea

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Shirin Neshat: Women in Society

By: Heide Barrenechea

This publication surveys important works drawn from the entire career of the New York-based Iranian artist Shirin Neshat (born 1957), from the iconic inscribed photographs of the Women of Allah series (1993-97) to the artist's most recent work, which looks at American culture and the ambivalent experience of being Iranian in the United States. Working nimbly in film, photography, video and multi-channel installation, Neshat's work has always engaged questions of identity and belonging, investigating the relationships between the cultures of Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, poetry and polemics, public life and private life, modernity and antiquity. Women in Society offers a comprehensive survey of Neshat's oeuvre, identifying two recurring themes in the artist's large and diverse body of work: the role of women in Islamic societies and the repercussions of traumatic, diaspora-related experiences suffered by women.

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Wasmuth

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3803033918

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Book's by Nima Naghibi

The Color of Stone

The Color of Stone

Women Write Iran

Women Write Iran

Women Write Iran

Women Write Iran

Rethinking Global Sisterhood

Rethinking Global Sisterhood

The Color of Stone

The Color of Stone

Shirin Neshat: Women in Society

Shirin Neshat: Women in Society

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