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Description: American Progress
TitleAmerican Progress
Creator nameGast, John
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1872
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions12 3/4 × 16 3/4 in. (32.4 × 42.5 cm)
LocationAutry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles
http:/­/­collections.theautry.org/­mwebcgi/­mweb.exe?request=record;id=M545330;type=101
Accession number92.126.1
SubjectsFrontier and pioneer life in artSymbolism in artWest (U.S.)--In artManifest Destiny
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2. Art
Carolyn Merchant
Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability
Artists and photographers who have engaged with global warming believe that the visual arts are an essential part of creating the large-scale public awareness and understanding of climate change that can bring about substantive policy change...
Author
Carolyn Merchant
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 by Carolyn Merchant
Related print edition pages: pp.46-65
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00349.3
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23420&redirecttoanchor=19300
Chapter subject tags:AnthropoceneHumanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United StatesRailroads in artWest (U.S.)Ecology in art
6. Vanishing Indians: Nostalgic Reminiscence and Haunting Presence
Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)
Description: Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917
Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917
The anticipatory nostalgia of Searchlight mirrors the elegiac meditation conveyed by the nocturnal imagery of the West ...
Author
Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)
PublisherYale University Press
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2018 by Yale University; © 2015 Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne
Related print edition pages: pp.133-145
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00087.011
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16991&redirecttoanchor=19300
Chapter subject tags:Indians of North America--HistorySpanish-American War, 1898Nocturne painting, American--19th centuryImperialism in art--United StatesRace in art--United States--19th centuryCurtis, Edward S., 1868-1952Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
3. The Moving Finger Writes: Western Art and the Dynamics of Change
Brian W. Dippie
Description: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
The most distinctive feature of what is called western American art is its rejection finally of the one thing westering always seemed to be about: change. In the nineteenth century change was implicit in every rendering of a western theme. If tree stumps represented progress to a pioneering people, so...
Author
Brian W. Dippie
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1992 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.89-115
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.006
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15733&redirecttoanchor=19300
Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artFrontier and pioneer life in artIndians in artArt and historyIndians of North America--West (U.S.)--History--19th century

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