Leonie Treier
Biographic Data
| ID | 96594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonie Treier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonie |
| FAMILY NAME | Treier |
| SIGNATURE | TREIER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard Graduate Center New York NY |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2754-0384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Props and the performance of ethnographic realism in George Catlin's Indian Gallery: Fabrications in hide, paint, and text
In the 1830s, George Catlin undertook several journeys to the American West to document, through painting, writing, and collecting, Native North American communities he perceived as vanishing. He later assembled the different media in his Indian Gallery, which he toured through the United States and Europe. In this article, I begin to redocument Catlin's Indian Gallery and his exhibitionary practice by paying attention to its largely overlooked m…
Architectures of Appropriation: Salvage, Repatriation, and the Politics of Jean Prouvé’s Maisons Tropicales
The Maisons Tropicales are three prefabricated housing structures designed by Jean Prouvé. Fabricated in France, they were transported to and assembled in Brazzaville and Niamey, then part of the French colonies, around 1950. Their design was tied closely to the belief in the so-called civilizing and enlightening power of European modernist design and, thereby, also the French colonial agenda. In the early 2000s, an American collector, Robert Rub…
Annotating Colonialism: Recent Exhibit Interventions in Historic Cultural (Mis)Representation at the American Museum of Natural History
This exhibition review essay compares three recent interventions into historic cultural representations at the American Museum of Natural History: the Digital Totem that was placed in the Northwest Coast Hall in 2016 to partially modernize its content, the 2018 reconsideration of the Old New York Diorama, which attempts to correct its stereotypical representations of Native North American peoples, and the 2019 exhibition Addressing the Statue pro…
Annotating Colonialism: Recent Exhibit Interventions in Historic Cultural (Mis)Representation at the American Museum of Natural History
This exhibition review essay compares three recent interventions into historic cultural representations at the American Museum of Natural History: the Digital Totem that was placed in the Northwest Coast Hall in 2016 to partially modernize its content, the 2018 reconsideration of the Old New York Diorama, which attempts to correct its stereotypical representations of Native North American peoples, and the 2019 exhibition Addressing the Statue pro…
Annotating Colonialism: Recent Exhibit Interventions in Historic Cultural (Mis)Representation at the American Museum of Natural History
This exhibition review essay compares three recent interventions into historic cultural representations at the American Museum of Natural History: the Digital Totem that was placed in the Northwest Coast Hall in 2016 to partially modernize its content, the 2018 reconsideration of the Old New York Diorama, which attempts to correct its stereotypical representations of Native North American peoples, and the 2019 exhibition Addressing the Statue pro…
Architectures of Appropriation: Salvage, Repatriation, and the Politics of Jean Prouvé’s Maisons Tropicales
The Maisons Tropicales are three prefabricated housing structures designed by Jean Prouvé. Fabricated in France, they were transported to and assembled in Brazzaville and Niamey, then part of the French colonies, around 1950. Their design was tied closely to the belief in the so-called civilizing and enlightening power of European modernist design and, thereby, also the French colonial agenda. In the early 2000s, an American collector, Robert Rub…
Props and the performance of ethnographic realism in George Catlin's Indian Gallery: Fabrications in hide, paint, and text
In the 1830s, George Catlin undertook several journeys to the American West to document, through painting, writing, and collecting, Native North American communities he perceived as vanishing. He later assembled the different media in his Indian Gallery, which he toured through the United States and Europe. In this article, I begin to redocument Catlin's Indian Gallery and his exhibitionary practice by paying attention to its largely overlooked m…
Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abandonment (legal (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)