This special issue on Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave offers a sustained examination of one of the most famous sculptures of the nineteenth century. This introduction explains the twin themes of the "transatlantic" and the "object", which underpin this project’s approach. Moving the s...

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Hauptverfasser:	Droth, Martina 1970- (VerfasserIn), Hatt, Michael 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[2016]
Schlagworte:	Powers, Hiram > 1805-1873 > Griechische Sklavin
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Zusammenfassung:	This special issue on Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave offers a sustained examination of one of the most famous sculptures of the nineteenth century. This introduction explains the twin themes of the "transatlantic" and the "object", which underpin this project’s approach. Moving the statue out of an insistently American frame, the sixteen articles presented here consider The Greek Slave as a set of objects that crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic. Displayed in many contexts and locations, the statue became both an icon of the shared Anglo-American culture of the nineteenth century and a symbol of the cultural and political divisions generated by America’s slave trade. This special issue examines The Greek Slave not as a single object for which any reproduction acts as a surrogate, but as a series of distinctive objects, including the six full-size statues and the varied reproductions that take the form and name of The Greek Slave.
ISSN:	1543-1002