Program

Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, 2005

Project

Made in the USA.: Americanizing Aesthetics at Carlisle

Department

The Ph.D. Program in Art History

Abstract

This project examines the institutional deployment of visual imagery—life masks, photographs, and illustrations—in the nationalistic project of racial and cultural assimilation. The Carlisle School provides a case study. Equally important is be the consideration of indigenous resistance and accommodation to this project.