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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Ratcliffe, Sam. "Texas History Painting," University of Texas at Austin, June 1985. Advisor: William H. Goetzmann (11, 1)
This dissertation examines painters’ depictions of selected events that occurred during the first century of Texas’s independence from Mexico. It discusses the iconographic significance of these paintings and their place in the history of American art. The focus is on their dual roles as reflectors and shapers of cultural attitudes as well as historical records. The introduction briefly discusses history painting within a framework of artistic theory. However, this study devotes more attention to biographical information concerning the artists’ careers, their motivations for executing these works, descriptions of the paintings, and historical narrative of the events depicted than to detailed questions of art criticism.
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