Browsing by Subject "Art History"

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    • HOMESCAPES: INDIGENOUS LAND ART AND PUBLIC MEMORY 

      Harris, Alicia (2020-05-08)
      Indigenous North Americans make visual forms that demonstrate and provide for the practice of kinship connections with land. In art history, discourse about “Land Art” has often omitted Indigenous connections with land and ...

    • It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art 

      Seaton, Melynda J. (2015-05)
      Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ...

    • Pictographic Motifs: Memory and Mobility on the Upper Missouri 

      Minor, Kimberly (2022-12-16)
      In “Pictographic Motifs: Memory and Mobility on the Upper Missouri” I investigate a small surviving body of Indigenous painted robes, shirts, and drawings that represent mediated images of intratribal conflict. Indigenous ...

    • The Works of Will James: His Contribution to the Mythologizing of the American Cowboy 

      Harrison, Nicole (2016-12)
      The life of Will James is one of mystery. His works, however, tell the story of a life he was meant to live. Born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d’Acton, the boy grew up yearning to be a cowboy. ...