Visuell representasjon av gullrushet i Klondike

Abstract

Abstract The last great gold rush has been romanticised through popular culture through more than a hundred years after it occurred in Klondike at the very end of the 19th century. This text has researched the work of two American artists who has drawn the mentioned historic period throughout decades. The intent of this work has been to navigate between the artists visual representations and the written literature on the subject, both primary- and secondary sources, to understand how the artists have chosen to tell and interpret the historic period and, in that search, reach a higher understanding of the artwork itself, but also how they have used various single representatives to represent much larger groups or elements.

Abstract The last great gold rush has been romanticised through popular culture through more than a hundred years after it occurred in Klondike at the very end of the 19th century. This text has researched the work of two American artists who has drawn the mentioned historic period throughout decades. The intent of this work has been to navigate between the artists visual representations and the written literature on the subject, both primary- and secondary sources, to understand how the artists have chosen to tell and interpret the historic period and, in that search, reach a higher understanding of the artwork itself, but also how they have used various single representatives to represent much larger groups or elements.