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Monuments of the "Vanishing Race": Native Americans in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture

Authors

JAEGEROVÁ Anna

Year of publication 2022
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The contact between Western civilization and native inhabitants of the Americas has captured the imagination of White audiences since the discovery of the New World. Euro-Americans produced images of Native Americans that advanced in form and complexity, and by the late nineteenth century, the Natives had also been established as a subject of the ‘high arts’. Sculpture, as an inherently less narrative medium than painting, was particularly convenient for the development of straightforward visual stereotypes. The presentation will showed ways in which American sculptors appropriated the image of Native Americans, transforming them into symbols of the dominant culture’s own identity.

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