Article: https://canadianart.ca/features/kent-monkman-3/
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– Who is Kent Monkman? Who is Miss Chief? Introduce their background.
– What is Landscape Art? How has it been used, as a genre of painting, in the process of colonization of the Americas?
– What is the significance of Kent Monkman presenting a lived in landscape painting (i.e. a landscape painting with people in it)? How does this tie into false colonial narratives?
– How does Kent Monkman, by recreating historic landscape paintings, offer a new reading onto them?
– Through his work, what is the power or the purpose of Kent Monkman’s reversal of gender and colonial narratives?
– How does Miss Chief, or Kent Monkman, reverse the gaze of the colonizer or the colonizer’s history? Mention three works by Monkman that reverse this gaze.