This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture.
In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photography—of Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing, rodeo, and horse show competition—it illuminates the strategic and varying roles visual artists have played in producing cultural understandings of human-animal relationships. As the first book to offer a history of American equine and equestrian imagery, it shrinks the chasm of literature on the subject and illustrates the significance of the genre to the history of American art. This book further connects American equine and equestrian art to historical, theoretical, and philosophical analyses of animals and attests to how the horse endures as a vital, meaningful subject within the art world as well as culture at large.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, American art, gender studies, race and ethnic studies, and animal studies.
Author(s): Jessica Dallow
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 196
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: But the Horse Is Much, Much More
Let Us not Praise Famous Horses
A Cow Is not a Cow Anywhere
Notes
Bibliography
1. Interspecies Entanglements in Edward Troye's Racehorse Portraits
Troye and English Models
The Multispecies Plantation Landscape
Thorough-breds
Against Kinship
Troye's Last Multi-figure Painting: The Undefeated Asteroid
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
2. Bone, Speed, and Blood: Schreiber & Sons and the Photographic Equine Portrait
Philadelphia, the Schreibers, and Thomas Eakins
Antecedents: From the Kentucky Stock Book and Race Horses of America to Portraits of Noted Horses of America
The Appeal of Trotters
Woodburn, Wallace, and Thoroughbreds
A Comparative Framework
Notes
Bibliography
3. A Girl Who Can Handle a Horse Well: The Rodeo Cowgirl in Early Twentieth-Century Real Photo Postcards
Cow(horse)girl
Rodeo Cowgirls in (Arrested) Motion
Woman/Horse/Together
The Rodeo Cowgirl in the Art of the West: Beyond the RPPC
Notes
Bibliography
4. Richard McLean's Equine Acts
McLean Chooses the Horse
Horses Acting as Painting
The Horse Show and its Audiences
Still (Live) Animals
Highbrow or Middlebrow?: Eliding Race and Class
(White) Women and Horses: Trophy Girls, Pageant Contestants, and Show Competitors
Women and Horses on the Periphery
Notes
Bibliography
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
