Kenneth Haltman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1558064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Haltman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Haltman |
| SIGNATURE | HALTMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American Artifacts
A Not-So-Savage Land
Frederick Whymper, best known (though, as Peter Johnson argues persuasively here, insufficiently recognized) for his drawings, paintings, and engravings of the Pacific Northwest produced beginning in 1862 when he arrived in Victoria for the gold rush, was still reworking and publishing that material as late as 1875 back home in London. This work, for the most part landscape views with occasional glimpses of human industry and genre scenes proper …
Flight and Predation
A delightful irony informs the western art of Alfred Jacob Miller—the numerous dramatic hunting scenes in particular—works that rely for their authority on an ostensibly archival record of the world yet indulge the viewer in imaginative vicarious release. Miller himself attributed the appeal of these images to the way their calculatedly naturalized indeterminacy—an effect he referred to as “mistiness”—left “full play” to the beholder’s imaginatio…
Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation
Empire's Nature
Acts of Discovery
Reaching out to touch someone
Reaching out to touch someone
Acts of Discovery
Empire's Nature
Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation
Flight and Predation
A delightful irony informs the western art of Alfred Jacob Miller—the numerous dramatic hunting scenes in particular—works that rely for their authority on an ostensibly archival record of the world yet indulge the viewer in imaginative vicarious release. Miller himself attributed the appeal of these images to the way their calculatedly naturalized indeterminacy—an effect he referred to as “mistiness”—left “full play” to the beholder’s imaginatio…
A Not-So-Savage Land
Frederick Whymper, best known (though, as Peter Johnson argues persuasively here, insufficiently recognized) for his drawings, paintings, and engravings of the Pacific Northwest produced beginning in 1862 when he arrived in Victoria for the gold rush, was still reworking and publishing that material as late as 1875 back home in London. This work, for the most part landscape views with occasional glimpses of human industry and genre scenes proper …
American Artifacts
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