L'America: Woman, Artist, Landscape - Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Emily Carr, Painters as Theorists of the National Imaginary

Authors

Paula Rabinowitz

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Visual artists are open to assessment as progressive public intellectuals. Drawing on three case studies – Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Emily Carr – this essay considers the strategies of rhetoric and (self)-representation used to position the artist as a personification of a range of political and social identities, including historically specific forms of nationalism.

Repository Citation

Rabinowitz, Paula. "L'America: Woman, Artist, Landscape - Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Emily Carr, Painters as Theorists of the National Imaginary." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–15. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/10