Wild American Savages and the Civilized English: Catlin’s Indian Gallery and the Shows of London

1. Introduction: Authenticity and ArtificeGeorge Catlin was the outstanding painter of nineteenth-century American Indian life, and a flamboyant showman. Brian Dippie has shown that the two roles were intimately connected. Catlin had a grand design to record “doomed” Indian cultures for posterity....

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में प्रकाशित:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
मुख्य लेखक: Lewis, Robert M.
स्वरूप: Article ou chapitre numérique
भाषा:Anglais
प्रकाशित: European journal of American studies 2008
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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सारांश:1. Introduction: Authenticity and ArtificeGeorge Catlin was the outstanding painter of nineteenth-century American Indian life, and a flamboyant showman. Brian Dippie has shown that the two roles were intimately connected. Catlin had a grand design to record “doomed” Indian cultures for posterity. “I have flown to the rescue of their looks and their modes,” he pronounced from London in 1841. White settlers were exterminating them, “yet, phoenix-like, they may rise from ‘the stain of the pain...