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Publication details [#50683]

Perry, Nicole. 2020. Translating the “Dead Indian”: Kent Monkman, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, and the painting of the American West. In Kölling, Angela, ed. Visibility and Translation. Special issue of Imaginations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 11 (3): 79–99.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
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Journal WWW

Abstract

This article examines the work of Kent Monkman, an artist of Cree ancestry, and his indigenous interventions into art of the American West. Known for his provocative and highly sexualized genre, Monkman, along with his gender fluid alter ego and companion, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, have been upsetting the art world. By using Thomas King’s (Cherokee) concept of the “Dead Indian”, Perry examines how Monkman’s work revitalises indigenous histories and places them in the centre of the paintings by the 19th-century German-American artist of the American West, Albert Bierstadt. By repurposing the scene, Monkman translates the images from anachronistic settler-colonial narratives and uses these images from the past to highlight indigenous narratives of the American West.
Source : Based on abstract in journal