<p>At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial identification and their implications by looking specifically at the case of American Indians.</p>

Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America

History

Garroutte, Eva Marie

Americas

University of California Press

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists—as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West"—to the Western Modernists—who introduced not only modern visual languages but a range of political and ethnic perspectives—Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture brings together a range of images to present a more complex picture of the American West. Section one surveys art from the collection of John McMullen's collection of accomplished Western Realists; section two presents new images of cowboys to investigate the mythology that has developed around them. Section three features work by Native American artists who seek to express their version of the history of western settlement and to articulate the complexities of living in two postmodern cultures, and the final portion of the catalog presents a changed western landscape, bearing layers of social and environmental history. In presenting this body of work, the exhibition presents many Wests, offering an alternative to the debate about which images and styles represent the American West as it was—and is in the present day.

Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Arts & Photography

Bonansinga, Kate

Fryer, Heather

Johnson, Marilynn

History & Criticism

Mcmullen Museum Of Art, Boston College

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