ISBN:
9781643363226
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The words and wares of David Drake
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Words and Wares of David Drake
DDC:
738.092
Keywords:
ART / American / African American
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ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
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Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen
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Ceramic arts, pottery, glass
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Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
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HIS056000
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
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Individual artists, art monographs
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Keramik, Glas, Mosaikkunst
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Kunstgeschichte
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Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei
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Slavery & abolition of slavery
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien
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South Carolina
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South Carolina
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USA
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Drake, David 1800-1870
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Edgefield, SC
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Schwarze
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Keramik
Abstract:
A celebration of an enslaved potter's art and the poetry he inscribed in clay despite anti-literacy laws.
Abstract:
Cover -- THE WORDS AND WARES OF DAVID DRAKE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword to I Made This Jar (1998) -- Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE I MADE THIS JAR -- I Made This Jar -- Searching for Messages in Clay: What Do We Really Know About the Poetic Potter, Dave? -- Edgefield, South Carolina: Home to Dave the Potter -- Dave the Potter and the Origins of African American Poetry -- Talking Jars: Dave and Larger Traditions of Pot-Poetry -- Archaeological Findings Related to Dave at Edgefield Pottery Sites -- Dave's Verse as Social Response -- Catalog of Exhibition Objects, I Made This Jar, McKissick Museum, 1998 -- PART TWO I MADE THIS JAR REVISITED -- There Once Was a Man Named Dave . . . -- Black Artists as Cultural Historians: Jonathan Green, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Drake -- Embodying Dave: Performance and the Creation of an Artistic, Para-Historical Narrative -- Marking Time: The Dated Vessels of David Drake -- The Last Dave Pot? -- Who Were the Potters in the Old Edgefield District? -- "The Unknown Potter": Continuing the Search for Dave -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Amendments to the Original Exhibition Catalog Text -- Appendix B: Edgefield District African American Potters and Associated Laborers (1790-1900) -- Appendix C: Inventory of Dated Vessels -- Appendix D: Known Inscriptions Incised by and Attributed to David Drake -- Notes -- Index.
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