Renée Ater
Biographic Data
| ID | 5456319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renée Ater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renée |
| FAMILY NAME | Ater |
| SIGNATURE | ATER R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia
This chapter considers two recent monuments to the memory of slavery in Alexandria, Virginia: Erik Blome’s Edmonson Sisters Memorial (2010) and Mario Chiodo’s Path of Thorns and Roses (2013), part of the Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial. The bronze monuments reveal the difficulties contemporary artists face in visualizing the historical enslaved body in three-dimensional form and in rendering it with sensitivity in public space. Giving s…
Communities in Conflict
Renée Ater, Communities in Conflict: Memorializing Martin Luther King Jr. in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 110, No. 1, Special Issue—Art, Race, Space (March 2014), pp. 32-39
Art in the Anthropocene
Remaking Race and History
This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), one of the early twentieth century’s few African American women artists. To understand Fuller’s strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Renée Ater examines the artist’s contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (19…
Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments
Creating Their Own Image
Fuller [née Warrick], Meta Vaux
Making History
Fuller [née Warrick], Meta Vaux
Making History
Creating Their Own Image
Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments
Remaking Race and History
This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), one of the early twentieth century’s few African American women artists. To understand Fuller’s strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Renée Ater examines the artist’s contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (19…
Communities in Conflict
Renée Ater, Communities in Conflict: Memorializing Martin Luther King Jr. in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 110, No. 1, Special Issue—Art, Race, Space (March 2014), pp. 32-39
Art in the Anthropocene
The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia
This chapter considers two recent monuments to the memory of slavery in Alexandria, Virginia: Erik Blome’s Edmonson Sisters Memorial (2010) and Mario Chiodo’s Path of Thorns and Roses (2013), part of the Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial. The bronze monuments reveal the difficulties contemporary artists face in visualizing the historical enslaved body in three-dimensional form and in rendering it with sensitivity in public space. Giving s…
History (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Performance art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works)