- Title :
-
Anne Whitney's Leif Eriksson : a Brahmin response to Christopher Columbus
- Author :
- HEADLEY, Janet A. ;
- Publication year :
-
2003
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- Examines Anne Whitney's monument to Leif Eriksson in Boston, MA (1887), focusing on her idealized, classically-inspired bronze sculpture. the influences for the work and places it in the context of the 19th-c. ethnic debates, involving Eriksson as the true discoverer of America, linking New England to Protestant Scandinavia. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 19 ill. (3 col.) ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Boston (MA, USA) ; Classicisme ; Etats-Unis ; Ethnique (caractère) ; Iconographie ; Influence ; Leif Eir~ksson, ca.975-ca.1020 ; Leif Eriksson ; Monument commémoratif ; Protestants ; Scandinavie ; Sculpture ; Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 ; 1800-1900 ;
- Descriptors :
- Boston (MA, USA) ; Classicism ; Commemorative monuments ; Ethnicity ; Iconography ; Influence ; Leif Eir~ksson, ca.975-ca.1020 ; Leif Eriksson ; Protestants ; Scandinavia ; Sculpture ; United States ; Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 ; 1800-1900 ;
- Document type :
- Article ;
- Source :
-
American art, 2003, 17, 2, summer
- INIST identifier :
- 24875073 ;
- ISSN :
- ISSN 1073-9300 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
- Publisher country :
- UNITED STATES ;
