Publication details
The Enigma of Discovery: Inventing the Image of American Indians in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | 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. |
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