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An American art: Edward S. Curtis and "The North American Indian", 1907--1930.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An American art: Edward S. Curtis and "The North American Indian", 1907--1930./
Author:	Egan, Shannon.
Description:	416 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Brigid Doherty; Michael Fried.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-11A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3240701
ISBN:	9780542954092

An American art: Edward S. Curtis and "The North American Indian", 1907--1930.
Egan, Shannon.

An American art: Edward S. Curtis and "The North American Indian", 1907--1930. - 416 p.

Advisers: Brigid Doherty; Michael Fried.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2007.

This dissertation offers a new analysis of The North American Indian, a forty-volume set of photographs and writings published in the United States between 1907 and 1930 by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952). In considering the significance of Curtis's project both as a work of photographic art and as a politically-minded reaction to the contemporary "Indian problem," I claim that The North American Indian must be understood in relation to governmental policies affecting Native Americans and the development of American art in the first three decades of the twentieth century. I argue that the socio-political movements of progressivism in the early 1900s and of nativism in the 1920s affected not only the reception of Curtis's project, but also prompted his shift in photographic style.

ISBN: 9780542954092Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

An American art: Edward S. Curtis and "The North American Indian", 1907--1930.
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520 $a This dissertation offers a new analysis of The North American Indian, a forty-volume set of photographs and writings published in the United States between 1907 and 1930 by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952). In considering the significance of Curtis's project both as a work of photographic art and as a politically-minded reaction to the contemporary "Indian problem," I claim that The North American Indian must be understood in relation to governmental policies affecting Native Americans and the development of American art in the first three decades of the twentieth century. I argue that the socio-political movements of progressivism in the early 1900s and of nativism in the 1920s affected not only the reception of Curtis's project, but also prompted his shift in photographic style.
520 $a In the first decade of production of The North American Indian (1900-1910), Curtis's espousal of progressivism, specifically the attempts to assimilate Native Americans during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, coincided with his adherence to the style of pictorialist photography. Many of Curtis's photographs from the second decade of his project (1910-1920), however, do not conform to the formal ideals of pictorialism, but rather were made in response to the introduction of modern European art and so-called "modernist primitivism" to New York in the 1910s. By the 1920s Curtis's political activism and artistic direction indicated an awareness of nativist artists and writers in the Southwest, who privileged Native American art and culture as part of a larger effort to define a "native" American identity.
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