Reflections on Hiram Powers's Greek Slave
This article revises the author’s original thoughts about Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave published in the now-defunct American Art Journal in 1982. The author now argues that Hiram Powers became aware of Northern and Southern interpretations of The Greek Slave within the context of the antislavery movem...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nineteenth century art worldwide / Association of Historians of nineteenth century Art (AHNCA) |
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| Format: | Online |
| Sprache: | eng |
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2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This article revises the author’s original thoughts about Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave published in the now-defunct American Art Journal in 1982. The author now argues that Hiram Powers became aware of Northern and Southern interpretations of The Greek Slave within the context of the antislavery movement as the statue traveled throughout the United States between 1847 and 1849, generating newspaper reviews that his agent Miner K. Kellogg collected, and to which Powers surely would have had access. These published responses, combined with his own shifting attitudes to slavery in his native country as revealed by his correspondence, led to his decision finally in 1869 that both The Greek Slave and his America allude specifically to slavery in the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 1543-1002 |