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Spirit of the Frontier
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Spirit of the Frontier
- John Gast
The end
Nowadays...
Study of the painting
- 9/11
- Terrorism = war without borders
- Economic crisis
- Emerging countries
- The need to keep on spreading its supremacy worldwide
- Title : "Spirit of the Frontier", "American progress"
- Painter : John Gast
- Date : 1872
- Painting : oil canvas
- Frontier // borders
"The new Frontier"
Homestead Act
Manifest Destiny
- May 1862
- East to West policy the famous motto "Go West"
- Opening of settlement in Western US allowing any American to put in a claim up for 160 acres of federal land
- 1960
- Kennedy : "We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats. ... Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus"
- Political context of the Cold War
- US need to catch up the USSR 1957 : Sputnik Skyrocket
- 1969 : first man on the moon
- 1840
- o'Sullivan "America had been chosen to carry out the task of expansionism to drive out the light of civilization upon the continent."
- Territorial acquisition + progress of liberty + individual economic opportunity
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"
The Frontier heroes
- "Buffalo Bill", William F. Cody
- 1846 -1917
- Buffalo Hunter, comedian, artist
- FarWest myth
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