Die Vatikanischen Museen und die Native Americans : von Objekten zu Subjekten = The Vatican Museums and Native Americans : from objects to subjects
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2013
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Aigner, Katherine
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Arnoldsche Art Publishers
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The colonisation of the world by European powers led to the production of a wealth of images of the colonised cultures and peoples. Images of North American Indians play an important role in our visual culture. This publication illuminates how they are represented, as well as their political and historico-cultural background, based on the so-called 'Indian Museum' of the Dresden sculptor Ferdinand Pettrich (1798-1872). In the 1830s, Pettrich travelled to Washington and portrayed representatives of Indian tribes in 33 reliefs, statues, busts and bozzetti made of terracotta-coloured plaster. These tribes were negotiating treaties with the US government about the future usage of the land. Pettrich's oeuvre is an early example of the recurring motif of North American Indians in European and Euro-American art. The classically-influenced forms of these representations, the influence of the simultaneously emerging 'Indian painting', as well as the lasting fascination of the subject of 'Indians' are presented here, along with the political context of the era the works were created in.
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Tecumseh, Keokuk, Black Hawk : Indianerbildnisse in zeiten von Vertragen und Vertreibung : portrayals of native Americans in times of treaties and removal.
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