ISBN:
0806135336
,
9780806135335
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 604 S.
,
zahlr. Ill.
,
29 cm
Edition:
2nd ed
DDC:
700.978
Keywords:
Arts, American 19th century
;
Arts, American 20th century
;
Arts, American 19th century
;
Arts, American 20th century
;
West (U.S.) In art
;
West (U.S.) In art
;
USA
;
Frontier
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1800-1980
;
USA
;
Wilder Westen
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1800-1980
Abstract:
PART ONE - THE ROMANTIC HORIZON -- The view from Peale's Museum -- George Catlin: Saving the memory of a vanishing race -- European science and the noble savage -- The vogue for galleries and compendia: Stanley, Kane, and Easman -- "In all their savage glory" -- The mountain man: a fair likeness -- Painting the perils of the West -- Currier and Ives and the West -- PART TWO - THE GOLDEN LAND -- Destiny and democracy - Shattering the rim of Christendom -- Picturing Manifest Destiny -- The great reconnaissance -- Overland to an empire: dream, nightmare and reality -- The El Dorado vision -- Dreaming in San Francisco -- PART THREE - IMAGES OF GLORY -- Bierstadt's mighty mountains -- The wonders of Yosemite -- Artist and photographer in wonderland -- The grandest canyon of them all -- Images of progress -- Episodes of glory --- Views of tragedy -- The resurrection of the vanishing American
Abstract:
PART FOUR - THE WILD RIDERS -- Frederic Remington: no teacup tragedies -- C.M. Russell: the cowboy genius -- PART FIVE - PLAY THE LEGEND -- The American scout triumphant -- Cowboys and cameramen -- Pictures tell the story -- Cowboys create history -- Westerns make history -- PART SIX - OTHER VOICES, OTHER WESTS -- The mysterious artist of the West -- Escape to Taos -- Left Bank of the Rio Hondo -- What have you done with your land? -- The Indian renaissance -- Montezuma's return -- The transcendent West of Georgia O'Keeffe -- The West of Jackson Pollock -- Photographing the postmodern West -- From the Old West to the New West: A paradox of perception -- We follow the sun: temples and tumuli in the Western landscape
Description / Table of Contents:
PART FOUR - THE WILD RIDERS -- Frederic Remington: no teacup tragedies -- C.M. Russell: the cowboy genius -- PART FIVE - PLAY THE LEGEND -- The American scout triumphant -- Cowboys and cameramen -- Pictures tell the story -- Cowboys create history -- Westerns make history -- PART SIX - OTHER VOICES, OTHER WESTS -- The mysterious artist of the West -- Escape to Taos -- Left Bank of the Rio Hondo -- What have you done with your land? -- The Indian renaissance -- Montezuma's return -- The transcendent West of Georgia O'Keeffe -- The West of Jackson Pollock -- Photographing the postmodern West -- From the Old West to the New West: A paradox of perception -- We follow the sun: temples and tumuli in the Western landscape.
Description / Table of Contents:
PART ONE - THE ROMANTIC HORIZON -- The view from Peale's Museum -- George Catlin: Saving the memory of a vanishing race -- European science and the noble savage -- The vogue for galleries and compendia: Stanley, Kane, and Easman -- "In all their savage glory" -- The mountain man: a fair likeness -- Painting the perils of the West -- Currier and Ives and the West -- PART TWO - THE GOLDEN LAND -- Destiny and democracy - Shattering the rim of Christendom -- Picturing Manifest Destiny -- The great reconnaissance -- Overland to an empire: dream, nightmare and reality -- The El Dorado vision -- Dreaming in San Francisco -- PART THREE - IMAGES OF GLORY -- Bierstadt's mighty mountains -- The wonders of Yosemite -- Artist and photographer in wonderland -- The grandest canyon of them all -- Images of progress -- Episodes of glory --- Views of tragedy -- The resurrection of the vanishing American.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-586) and index
,
Companion volume to the PBS television series of the same title. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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