Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' Cover Art Meaning Explained by Professor

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Beyoncé sits astride a brilliant white horse on the cover of her new album “Cowboy Carter.” With an artist as deliberate as Beyoncé, nothing is an accident. Fans are trying to figure out what the album’s visuals mean, and what she’s trying to say about her foray into the country music genre with them. The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer wrote a lengthy statement accompanying the release of her album cover art.

President George Washington was frequently painted next to Blueskin, the horse he rode during the Revolutionary War. “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” by Jacques-Louis David shows Napoleon Bonaparte on a white horse while leading troops. “Beyoncé is very good at presenting herself as heroic,” Peterson says. “I think the white horse and the white hat do that very well.” White horses carry various connotations of purity, freedom, independence, strength and the expansion of American territory.

 

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