Angel De Cora (c. 1870-1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850-1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her small immigrant community. The immigration of Thronson and her family literally maps over the De Cora family's forced migration across Wisconsin, Iowa, and onto the plains of Nebraska and Kansas. Tracing the parallel lives of these two women artists at the turn of the twentieth century, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reveals how their stories intersected and diverged in the American Midwest.
By examining the creations of these two artists, Sutton shows how each woman produced art or handicrafts that linked her new home to her homeland. Both women had to navigate and negotiate between asserting their authentic self and the expectations placed on them by others in their new locations. The result is a fascinating story of two women that speaks to universal themes of Native displacement, settler conquest, and the connection between art and place.
| ISBN: | 9781609386870 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2020 |
| Author: | Elizabeth A Sutton |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 196 pages |
| Series: | Iowa and the Midwest Experience |
| Genres: |
History of art Migration, immigration and emigration Gender studies: women and girls Indigenous peoples |
Angel De Cora (c. 1870-1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850-1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her small immigrant community. The immigration of Thronson and her family literally maps over the De Cora family's forced migration across Wisconsin, Iowa, and onto the plains of Nebraska and Kansas. Tracing the parallel lives of these two women artists at the turn of the twentieth century, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reveals how their stories intersected and diverged in the American Midwest.
By examining the creations of these two artists, Sutton shows how each woman produced art or handicrafts that linked her new home to her homeland. Both women had to navigate and negotiate between asserting their authentic self and the expectations placed on them by others in their new locations. The result is a fascinating story of two women that speaks to universal themes of Native displacement, settler conquest, and the connection between art and place.
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place features in the following genres: History of art, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies: women and girls, Indigenous peoples
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place is available in Paperback
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place was written by Elizabeth A Sutton and published by University of Iowa Press
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place has 196 pages
Yes it is part of Iowa and the Midwest Experience series