Model citizens, mural painting, pageantry, and the art of civic life in progressive America
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on the related arts of mural painting and pageantry in Progressive America and considers how civic artists participated on a grand scale in the era's campaigns for reform. Examining the ways in which period creatives made reform into something visible, dramatic, and vital, this study asks: What did Progressivism look like? What civic lessons did murals and pageants activate, and for which publics? How did civic art's classical forms and consensual narratives resonate with its viewing communities, and how did those communities respond? Artistic Progressives positioned their art forms at the center of the era's broader campaign to expand participatory democracy, improve social conditions, and impose a sense of order. Through paint and playacting, they entered into cultural and political debates on Americanization, immigration, citizenship, suffrage, and the new pedagogy of learning by doing. Mural painting and pageantry served as collaborative meeting points for art-minded citizens as well as contested zones of cultural agency. The study's five chapters examine the mural programs at the Library of Congress (1895-1897) and the Massachusetts State House (1900-1904), the Pageant of Illinois (1909), the Suffrage Pageant-Procession (1913), and mural painting and pageantry in Madison, Wisconsin (1908-1917).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Madsen, Annelise Kristine |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History |
| Primary advisor | Corn, Wanda M |
| Thesis advisor | Corn, Wanda M |
| Thesis advisor | Bukatman, Scott, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Winterer, Caroline, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
| Advisor | Bukatman, Scott, 1957- |
| Advisor | Winterer, Caroline, 1966- |
| Advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Annelise K. Madsen. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2010 by Annelise Kristine Madsen
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