Burns, Emily C
Transnational Frontiers
- ISBN 13:
- 9780806160030
- author:
- Burns, Emily C
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- University of Oklahoma Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 248
- Dimensions:
- 28.4 x 23.6 x 2.5 centimetres (1
- Genre:
- History, Europe, France,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, and its impact was significant. The exhibition was "managed to suit French ideas," but what were those "French ideas" about the American West? In Transnational Frontiers, Emily C. Burns explores how American artists, writers, and tourists traveling to France exported a dominant frontier narrative that shaped the French imagination during the Gilded Age. The book examines the complex cultural exchanges between America and France from 1865 to 1915, revealing how Native American performers challenged traditional views of the American West. Lavishly illustrated, Transnational Frontiers shows how American artists and illustrators used imagery to define the West, while also negotiating the politics of American Indian assimilation. By examining this process, Burns sheds light on the interconnections between American western art and Franco-American artistic exchange, providing a nuanced understanding of how images of the American West were constructed and consumed in France.
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