2021
The Enigma of Discovery: Inventing the Image of American Indians in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture
JAEGEROVÁ, AnnaBasic information
Original name
The Enigma of Discovery: Inventing the Image of American Indians in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture
Name in Czech
Engima objevování: Konstrukt obrazu amerických indiánů v sochařství 19. století
Authors
Edition
Virtual Conference: Discovery, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. 11.-13. 3. 2021, Sacramento, 2021
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Presentations at conferences
Field of Study
60401 Arts, Art history
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)
američtí indiáni; sochařství 19. století; Světová výstava v Chicagu; Paul Wayland Bartlett; Cyrus E. Dallin; James Earl Fraser; Emmanuel Frémiet; pařížský Salon
Keywords in English
Native Americans; nineteenth-century sculpture; Chicago World's Fair; Paul Wayland Bartlett; Cyrus E. Dallin; James Earl Fraser; Emmanuel Frémiet; Paris Salon
Tags
International impact
Changed: 22/4/2025 14:11, Mgr. et Mgr. Anna Jaegerová
Abstract
In the original language
The paper focused on the sculptural representations of Native Americans, and in particular, those created for, and around, one of the most ambitious celebrations of discovery in Western history: the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. These sculptures are symptoms of colonial ideology in the process of building the American nation, expressions of artistic ambition in a struggle to develop a national school of art, and reflections of scientific efforts to make sense of the diversity and the collision of cultures. Endeavours in all these areas – political, artistic, and scientific - show how discovery in the 19th century was an inventive process governed by different intentions and motivations.
Links
| MUNI/A/1468/2020, interní kód MU |
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