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1847: extinction of natives, and the beginning of idealisation. There is no more Indians land, and he is idealising the last one. Noble savage. They are the last survivals. He is looking at the pacific, so there is no more land, no future. -
A patrimonial society where women play a secondary role.
He standing a little bit forward to convey a meaning: she is inferior, having less power. Strategic position. As she is looking sideway what reinforces the “inferiority”. -
Automat: Is the reference of the kind of life she is living in the city. Everything is man- made/ artificial, she is empty. Robot life creatures, people not able to express her feelings, and she will not tell us.
Eduard Hooper wants to transmit us no hope in his painting. Somebody looking through the window show us hope -
An historical episode. Protagonist, the guy riding in a horseback. Paul Revere, when America was still a colony wanting to be an independent nation, American Civil War. -
1st black girl to attend a school for whites, in Topeka, Kansas. Men are wearing track suits with a yellow band around their sleeves. Federal marshal in law and order- national police for special cases. They are scotting her to the school, and in the wall there are tomatoes against the wall. 1st black girl to attend the school for whites. Breaking the Jim law. -
Hammons was a preacher and an civil right activist. He became a serious political president candidate.
The painting is related to blacks. An attach of American system that they go to college only if they are good in basketball. So he thinks that they had to were higher goals