Columbia and Her Foot Soldiers
Civic Art and the Demand for Change at the 1913 Suffrage Pageant-Procession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19352006 |
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| Authors | Annelise K Madsen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 283-310 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Winterthur Portfolio (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-0416 • E-ISSN: 1545-6927 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/679369 |
| OpenAlex | W2286218764 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
At the 1913 Suffrage Pageant-Procession, Hazel MacKaye and a corps of suffragists enlisted civic art to demand political change. Stitching together pageant and parade, participants traded on tangled allusions to old and new, militant and conservative, modern and classical, infusing the performance with hybrid forms that complicated contemporary notions of acceptable womanhood. Examining the pageant-procession’s scripted vision as well as its actual conditions, this article maps the ways that civic art pictorially held opposing meanings in productive tension, pinpointing as well where such artistic maneuvering remained susceptible to recalibrations by the press, government officials, pageant leaders, and suffragists themselves
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Clothing · Cricket · Militant · Parade · Political science · Politics · Procession · Sociology · Suffrage · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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