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中图分类法:
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K837.125.72 版次： |
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著者:
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Todd, Leonard, |
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Carolina clay : [ the life and legend of enslaved potter David Drake /] / , |
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Life and legend of enslaved potter David Drake |
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载体形态:
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327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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内容提要:
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"A talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, is now recognized as one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century. He signed many of his works simply as 'Dave' and is known today as Potter David Drake. He made pots and storage jars -- everyday items, but because of their beauty and massive size, and because he signed and inscribed many with poems, they are valuable works of art, now commanding six figures at auction. Many of Dave's astounding jars are found now in America's finest museums. There is no other enslaved artist on record who dared to put his name on his work, a dangerous advertisement of literacy. Fascinated by this man and by his own troubling family history, Leonard Todd moved from Manhattan to Edgefield, South Carolina, where in the early 1800s his ancestors had established the thriving pottery industry in which Dave worked. Todd studied each of Dave's poems for biographical clues, which he pieced together with local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave's life -- a story of creative triumph in the midst of slavery."--Back cover. |
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主题词:
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African American potters South Carolina |
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African American poets South Carolina |
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Enslaved persons South Carolina |
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Potters United States |
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Poets, American 19th century |
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African American pottery History 19th century. South Carolina |
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Stoneware History 19th century. South Carolina |
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Slavery History 19th century. South Carolina |
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Potters South Carolina |
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African American artists South Carolina |