Lars Hætta’s miniature world: Sámi prison op-art autoethnography
Davy, Jack (2018) Lars Hætta’s miniature world: Sámi prison op-art autoethnography. Journal of Material Culture, 23 (3). pp. 280-294. ISSN 1359-1835
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Abstract
This article examines a collection of miniature objects, now held in museum collections, which were originally made by a Sámi political prisoner in Norway during the mid-19th century as part of an educational programme. The author draws on recent developments in the theory of miniaturization to consider these miniatures as examples of prison op-art autoethnography: communicative devices which seek to address broad and complex social issues through the process of the creation and distribution of semiophorically functionless mimetic objects of reduced scale and complexity, and which reflect the restrictions of incarcerated artistic expression and the questions this raises regarding authenticity and hybridity.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2018 12:30 |
Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2019 01:11 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66020 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1359183517745716 |
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