The Death of Cleopatra / The Birth of Freedom
Edmonia Lewis at the New World's Fair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4950095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanna W Gold (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 318-341 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2012.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W1984255936 |
| Language | EN |
At Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition, sculptor Edmonia Lewis's The Death of Cleopatra responded to the ambivalent Centennial culture that celebrated one-hundred years of a nation built on founding principles of unity and liberty, but that was haunted by centuries of African slavery, the recent Civil War, and the rapidly failing efforts of Reconstruction
Ambivalence · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Centennial · Cleopatra · Exhibition · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Spanish Civil War · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |