Midterm - Key Terms / Events / Concepts Flashcards
provides three key points related to this term that affect or influence race and relations in art history
Manifest Destiny
Definition:
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- “The Noble Savage” John Gast 1872
- Divine right to expand west.
- Removed Native Americans from home because it was seen as not theirs.
provides three key points related to this term that affect or influence race and relations in art history
Stereotypes of Native Americans
Sept 9 &/or Sept 12 Reading
Definition:
Stereotypes about Indigenous peoples of North America are a particular kind of ethnic stereotypes found both in North America, as well as elsewhere. Indigenous people of the Americas are commonly called Native Americans, Alaska Natives or First Nations (in Canada).[1] The indigenous peoples of the Arctic, known as Eskimo peoples (which include but are not limited to the Inuit) and Aleuts, are included; only the terms “Native Americans” and “American Indians” traditionally exclude them. The stereotyping of Native Americans must be understood in the context of history which includes conquest, forced relocation, and organized efforts to eradicate native cultures, such as the boarding schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which separated young Native Americans from their families in order educate and to assimilate them as Euro-Americans.[
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- John Gast?
- Hollywood created a stereotype “Redskin” who spoke in grunts, scalped peo-
ple and who yelped when menacing well-
meaning white people. The sports world uses
American Indians mascots
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Racist caricatures of African Americans
Definition:
Stereotypes and generalizations about African Americans and their culture have evolved within American society dating back to the colonial years of settlement, particularly after slavery became a racial institution that was heritable. The early blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century portrayed blacks as joyous, naive, superstitious, ignorant, and musically inclined—characteristics related to the way slaveholders in earlier years believed them to be.
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Marlon Riggs ???
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Abolitionism
Definition:
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism is a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free.
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Fredrick Douglas as a writer and speaker
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Ethnic caricatures of immigrants
Sept 12 Reading
Definition:
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3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Grant Wood
- Fredrick Burr Opper
- Charlie Chaplin
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Realism in American art
(Sept 16 reading)
Definition:
American realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Thomas Eakins
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Nostalgia in American art
Definition:
a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, toone’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearningfor the happiness of a former place or time:
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Thomas Eakins
- Henry Oswa Tanner
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Modernity in American art
Definition:
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Great Migration
Definition:
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.
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Great Depression
Definition:
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s.
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition:
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Jacob Lawrence
- James VanDerZee
- Archibald Motley Jr.
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Federal Art Project
Definition:
The Federal Art Project was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration, a Federal One program. Funded under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, it operated from August 29, 1935, until June 30, 1943.
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Regionalist painters
Definition:
Regionalism (also known as American Scene painting): An American art distinct from European standards; a concept of artistic nationalism; based on values, history, and patterns of behavior of agrarian America; a focus on finding renewal and affirmation in the frontier and the collective national past
American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small town America primarily in the midwest and deep south. It arose in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression, and ended in the 1940s due to the end of World War II and a lack of development within the movement. It reached its height of popularity from 1930 to 1935 because it was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland during the Great Depression.[1]
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Photo-Documentary
Sept 14 reading
Definition:
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit.
3 relevant points related to race identity in art:
- Dorothea Lange
- Gordon Parks
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Portraiture
Definition:
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
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