Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the art of place : how two Midwestern women used art to negotiate migration and dispossession /

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"Angel De Cora (c. 1870-1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850-1929), on the other hand, was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her small immigrant community...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sutton, Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]
Series:Iowa and the Midwest experience.
Subjects:
Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka.
Thronson, Karen, > 1850-1929.
Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka
Winnebago women > Biography.
Norwegian American women > Biography.
Women artists > Social networks > Middle West.
Women artisans > Social networks > Middle West.
Art and society > Middle West.
Femmes artistes > Réseaux sociaux > Midwest (États-Unis)
Artisanes > Réseaux sociaux > Midwest (États-Unis)
Art et société > Midwest (États-Unis)
ART / General
Art and society
Norwegian American women
Winnebago women
Middle West
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping migrations
  • Community and tradition : making a home in Kansas, 1872-1902
  • Connecting to home "her own way," 1883-1904
  • Norwegian women crafting connections in Iowa, 1904-1912
  • Creating solidarity : De Cora at Carlisle, 1907-1914
  • Conclusion : a sort of homecoming.

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