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Identifier	Thesis 1849
Author	Petrillo, Lynda A.
Title	The Origins of America's Visual Identity
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2005
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Sixteenth-century North America had neither European castle nor king, classical ruins or antiquities, no ancient or cultural history; no sense of a past, no memories, no art and no literature; yet it had a present and a future. To Europeans, it was a new, fresh, exciting and challenging environment to be explored, colonized and conquered. Images that communicated America's landscape and aboriginal inhabitants sparked European imaginations while relating the character of America. Images of America were rare during the sixteenth century until the English explorer and artist John White produced the first credible, visual documentation: images from the Roanoke Colony in 1585. Visual imagery in or of America did not appear again until the latter part of the eighteenth century in the form of portraits. By the turn of the nineteenth century, however, the aesthetics of art were changing, so much so that a distinct American identity was developing on canvas. Artists like Thomas Cole and Frederick Church revered the Eastern landscape, while George Catlin and Karl Bodmer were tantalized by the indigenous population of the West during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. John Mix Stanley and Alfred Jacob Miller documented mid-nineteenth century life in the West. Albert Bierstadt, along with Thomas Moran, made outstanding contributions to the historical documentation of America's Manifest Destiny that perpetuated the impetus for government exploration and preservation of land that became America's national parks beginning in the 1870s. These artist-explorers, whose names are recognizable to some and obscure to others, were the contributors of eyewitness accounts of New-World landscape, native settlements, indigenous flora and fauna and topographical records that piqued the curiosity of the Europeans about this exotic place called North America. The importance of their artistic visual documentation of the American landscape, its cultural relevance and historical significance in the chronology and development of the nation and its national identity is an integral part of our civilization that requires recognition and preservation. These artist-explorers were men whose artistic passion not only nurtured America's characteristics but also reflected their own attitudes and values.
Subject	Art and history -- United States
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Warshauer, Matthew, 1965-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734960
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