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Haltman, Kenneth. "Figures in a Western Landscape: Reading the Art of Titian Ramsay Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820," Yale University, May 1992. Advisor: Howard Lamar/Jules Prown (1, 23, 11)
This dissertation is a cultural interpretation of sketches and watercolors comprising specimen, landscape, and ethnographic genre studies executed by Philadelphia artist-naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale on the first federally sponsored reconnaissance of the trans-Mississippi West following Lewis and Clark. It includes a discussion of Peale’s revisions of first impressions into finished views in an oeuvre situated at a defining moment in early modern culture when bids for cognitive control over the natural world through descriptive classification and representation were developing as mutually reinforcing forms of cultural practice inflected by shared concern for structuring relations between Eastern “viewers” and Western vistas. The study reads early expeditionary art as evidence of the complex interdependence of expansionist ideology and the rhetorical strategies which gave it form.
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