1st Edition
Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art 1832 to the Present
By Jessica Dallow
Copyright 2022
196 Pages
31 Color & 31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
31 Color & 31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
31 Color & 31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture.
In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photography—of Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing,... Read more
Introduction: But the Horse is Much, Much More, 1. Interspecies Entanglements in Edward Troye’s Racehorse Portraits, 2. Bone, Speed, and Blood: Schreiber & Sons and the Photographic Equine Portrait, 3. A Girl Who Can Handle a Horse Well: The Rodeo Cowgirl in Early Twentieth-Century Real Photo Postcards, 4. Richard McLean’s Equine Acts, Epilogue
Biography
Jessica Dallow is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
