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 young artist, n...

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Published in:19
Main Author: Julia Sienkewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2009-11-01
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Online Access:http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1574/