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Transnational Frontiers - The American West in France (Hardcover)
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Transnational Frontiers - The American West in France (Hardcover)
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
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When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the
New York Times reported that the exhibition would be ""managed to
suit French ideas."" But where had those ""French ideas"" of the
American West come from? And how had they, in turn, shaped the
notions of ""cowboys and Indians"" that captivated the French
imagination during the Gilded Age? In Transnational Frontiers,
Emily C. Burns maps the complex fin-de-siecle cultural exchanges
that revealed, defined, and altered images of the American West.
This lavishly illustrated visual history shows how American
artists, writers, and tourists traveling to France exported the
dominant frontier narrative that presupposed manifest destiny - and
how Native American performers with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and
other traveling groups challenged that view. Many French artists
and illustrators plied this imagery as well. At the 1900 World's
Fair in Paris, sculptures of American cowboys conjured a dynamic
and adventurous West, while portraits of American Indians on vases
evoked an indigenous people frozen in primitivity. At the same
time, representations of Lakota performers, as well as the
performers themselves, deftly negotiated the politics of American
Indian assimilation and sought alternative spaces abroad. For
French artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for
the construction of an American cultural identity, offering a
chance to debate ideas of primitivism and masculinity that
bolstered their own colonialist discourses. By examining this
process, Burns reveals the interconnections between American
western art and Franco-American artistic exchange between 1865 and
1915.
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