WL ARTS M23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Osage Nation, Satin
12 Oct 2016
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Slide 2-5: new african american museum & american indian museum, architecture influences how people view the museums. Slide 6-9: autry museum has many paintings that depict western expansion. Slide 10: american expansionists celebrated their expansion into the west through their art, john gast"s painting: american progress (1872) Depicts an angel floating above indigenous peoples. She"s holding a schoolbook and telegraph wire. Shows american indians fleeing on the left from progress . Shows whites on the right coming into the land. Concept of manifest destiny (god"s will to have western expansion) Slide 11: thomas moran"s painting: mountain of the holy cross (1875) Almost pristine, grand nature that is a virgin land. Entirely erases the prior residence of native americans and shows it as a land that"s waiting for occupation for white settlers. Shows a cross shape in the mountain. Idea of manifest destiny that provides justification for white expansion across america.
