Beyond the Mohawk Warrior: Reinterpreting Benjamin West’s Evocations of American Indians
This essay offers a reinterpretation of the narratives in John Galt’s 'The Life and Studies of Benjamin West' (1816) that introduce the artist’s encounters with, or evocations of, American Indians. This study grapples, in particular, with the iconic status of the narrative in which the you...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2009-11-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/515 |