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The
Horse in American Art Exhibit at Univ of Kentucky during Hoofbeats
and Heartbeats: The Horse in American Art August 22 to November 21, 2010
The Art Museum at the University
of Kentucky will present a groundbreaking exhibition to coincide with the
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010. Hoofbeats and Heartbeats will be the first significant
exhibition to critically examine the role of the horse in American art, history,
and culture. Over 40 paintings and sculptures will be brought together from
museums across the country. The show will be accompanied by a 100-page,
full-color scholarly catalogue with contributions by prominent art historians
and an introductory letter from Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear. This will be
the first time the Art Museum has organized an exhibition of this stature, and
it promises to have a lasting impact on American art history.
“This will be Lexington’s opportunity to showcase American art,
American history, and American horses of many breeds and types for our visitors
from all over the world,” states Art Museum Director Kathy Walsh-Piper. “It
is also a chance to show what
The goal of the exhibition is to engage visitors with the important role
that the horse has played in the visual and cultural dialogue of
Horses have played a crucial role in building the
The exhibition is divided into four sections that consider how the horse
is pictured in American art: on the battlefield, in scenes symbolizing freedom,
as a vehicle for physical labor, and as a source of recreation and personal
inspiration. These categories generally correspond to chronological periods from
the late eighteenth century to present day. ·
Heroes: The Horse and the Battlefield examines the crucial role horses played in the history of ·
Hoof
Beats: The Horse as a Symbol of
Freedom considers the role of horses
in historical paintings depicting stories of individual liberty or emancipation.
Horses also conveyed the physical freedom afforded by the vastness of the
American geography, particularly for painters of the American West. ·
Horse
Power: The Horse at Work in America
investigates the important role
horses played in the growth of ·
Heartbeats:
Essayists for the project are Kirk Savage, associate professor at the
University of Pittsburgh, whose book Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves:
Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America won the 1998 John Hope
Franklin Prize for the best book published that year for American Studies;
Jessica Dallow, associate professor at the University of Alabama,
Birmingham, who is currently working on a book entitled, America's Steed: The
Horse in American Visual Culture, 1830 to the Present; Sara Burns, a
professor from the University of Indiana who authored Pastoral Inventions:
Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (1989) and Inventing
the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America that was awarded
the 1996 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for outstanding research in the field of
American art; and Ingrid Cartwright, an assistant professor of art history at
Western Kentucky University who has authored many articles on equestrian themes
and is the Consulting Curator for the exhibition.
The exhibition sponsors to date include The Friends of the Art Museum,
The Keeneland Foundation, The Marquard Foundation, Wimbledon Farm, and UK
Healthcare. Sponsorship and promotional opportunities are still available.
Ticket Prices: $10 for General Public; $8 for Seniors; Catalogue
Price: $45
Image credit: MAYNARD The
ART MUSEUM at
the 859.257.5717
/ 859.323.1994 (FAX)
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