section 2 - natives

fisher river cree nation

kent monkman

histories of colonization +indigenous culture

kent monkman

fourth world

• what does it have

• what art styles + technique

• what painting is it based on + tell me more about the artist

• 3 blond men + Yosemite waterfall + bison

• European Romanticism, 20th century site-specific sculpture + appropriation

• Cho-Locke by Albert Bierstdat

  • American artist traveling towards western us to paint landscape (alongside Thomas Moran + Hill)

  • manifest destiny, caused Congress to dedicate national parks

california genocide + what artist linked to it

kent monkman, massacre of natives bc of us gov displacing natives

in fourth world, what does the camouflage mean + the horses

worn topless, camo is a fashion style + ties to military; horses were considered native american but were brought from the British

what is the 2nd appropriation in fourth world + what artwork was appropriated + tell me more about the artist of it + how is it implemented in fourth world

copper colored walls, Clara-Clara by Richard Serra

• while the color isn’t copper, it’s the weathered color of COR-TEN steel of his site-specific sculpture

• land art mvmt establishing site-specificity

• mass killing of bison: natives would kill bison with 2 narrow cliffs, similar to how the walls r

Tilted Arc by ____

Richard Serra, some white color people complained about it so it was forcibly removed which made him say “omg it’s destroyed 😯” and the same thing happened to him with Clara-Clara

what does the term “fourth world” mean?

cultures w/out sovereignty + are forced to live in another political natiion

what is the ipperwash crisis + what artwork/artist is it connected to + what was the artwork + what was it meant to highlight

• ontario provincial police killed native protest

• Reclamation Project by Bonnie Devine

• strip of sod across 6 landscapes in south ontario

• diff in timescales of colonial land + own reclamation of lands

Canoe, 2003

• Bonnie Dovine

• made by sewing pages of her MFA thesis

• part of Stories of the Shield

what stuff did Stories of the Shield contain? + what treaty is it related to

drawings, rocks, tree stumps wrapped in silk threads + video of family talking about uranium mining

• 1850 Robinson Hubon Treaty

Battle of the Woodlands

• Bonnie Dovine

• freestanding sculptures of maple + willow trees

• 19th century colonial map of canada + us

  • only 2/5 Great Lakes

  • shows aquatic system of buffalo, otter, turtle, rabbit, and leviathan (botrl)??

  • also shows clashes b/n people

  • places beads where treaties wer broken

  • dozens of animals (deer, bison, bear, rabbits) fleeing West

Edward S. Curtis

Will Wilson says hes the reason people think of natives being just in the past since he just exhibited stereotyped portaits of natives

wtf is wet plate collidon??

uesd by will wilson (pg 57)

Will Wilson’s Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds is a part of this ____ series: _______ + what is the inspo for the name

photographic, Survey; “view or consider comprehensively” is what he does, but it doesn’t capture historical resonance of surverys before used by us gov (Timothy O’ Sullivan + Arthur Scott)

what is will willsons art about

Church Rock Uranium Spill; this was largerly overlooked compared to the 3 mile Island in Pennsylvania + bc people think the desert is barren (kinda part due to Curtis)