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Sandy Guy - maybe interview him? Calum Colvin described him as an “outlaw”
Grant Wood (1891-1942, Iowa), Portrait of John B. Turner, Pioneer (1928-30), oil on canvas, 30.25 x 25.5 in
Cacafuego Press was founded in 1999 by poet Tom Pow and printmaker Hugh Bryden. Their first book, Landscapes, was launched with an exhibition at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that year …
The guy who made My Dad Was A Cowboy (2003):
- My dad was a cowboy. Pow, Tom.; Bryden, Hugh.; Gracefield Arts Centre (Dumfries)2003
In the Alamo bar in Paisley, cowboy and Native American memorabilia adorn the walls where Robert Burns groups meet but how far do the links between Paisley and America…
Art about the USA
GL Richardson - Cowboy Paintings
Gabrielle K Brown - North American Art
Jock McFadyan - Paisley-born artist painting American scenes
John Byrne - American Boy
Balincourt + Aleksandra Mir - Exhibition ‘USA Today’
John Sims: African-American black artist concerned with USA history. The symbol of the confederate flag; his lynching of it on a 13-foot-tall wooden gallows at Gettysburg in 2004 gained notoriety. Powerful retellings of US racism through repurposing of its symbols and art.
His website’s design is cosy and antiquated, but very frustrating to navigate.
Mike Lee, Cowboy oil pastel on paper 2020
Eduardo Arroyo (1937-2018 Madrid), Les retour des croisades (2017), oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Lone Ranger 50 x 40 in 127 x 101.6 cm Oil on canvas
Jules de Balincourt (b. 1972 Paris, France) Internal Renovations (2006) two panels, acrylic, oil and spray paint on panel, 220 x 300cm
Potentially useful performance work by Alexandra Mir (b. 1967 Lubin, Poland)
First thoughts on dissertation topics
Scotland/USA
How have the artworks of Scottish artists revealed their views on the United States, and what can be said for their relationship in general?
How have artists from the United States and Americanness interacted with the idea of Scotland, and vice versa.
Going West: Has any contrast been made by artists between the cultures present in the west of Scotland, and the much mythologised ‘Wild’ West.
The Imaginary West: the most sacred direction: intrepid adventure and exploration of the cowboy.
The image of a cowboy: cowboy for a night.
The sacred direction: how have artists portrayed the West, their yearning for it, for a different time - a simpler time - and how have they endeavoured to get there?
Text in Painting
Do I have to Spell it Out for you? How have painters painted text into their images, and how successful were they in their endeavours?
Words and pigment: titles, words and gooey paint: how are tensions built and released between the painted, the read and the entitled? (see ‘real, real estate flowers’)
Music
What has been the influence of folk music/appalachian mountain-music on the world of art.
Miscellanious
Outsider artists: Howard Finster, Ginger Riley,
How have model boats been portrayed in art?
How have enthusiasts been portrayed in art?
Some notes:
I’m keen to use quite recent artworks, ideally in the last thirty or forty years, and unknown/little-known artists too. Instagram and small gallery books are good places to discover them.