Download or read book 50 Great Paintings of the Old American West written by Patricia Janis Broder and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Paintings of the Old American West written by Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-three reproductions of famous Western paintings reveal the changing vision of the American frontier and its inhabitants from the late eighteenth century to the present
Download or read book Charles M Russell Paintings of the Old American West written by Charles Marion Russell and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in these pages, 73 of Russell's paintings from the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, are splendidly reproduced and accompanied by the descriptive and illuminating commentaries of art critic Louis Chapin.
Download or read book Painters and the American West written by Joan Carpenter Troccoli and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 120 Great Paintings of the American West written by Dover and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys, Indians, and magnificent panoramas -- colorful paintings by 43 artists include the works of Bierstadt, Catlin, and Remington. Each painting can be printed at poster size and you can play a slideshow of the images on your TV or computer.
Download or read book Remington Russell and the Art of the American West written by Kate F. Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent Spirits written by Patricia Trenton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich compendium of Western art by women, this book also contains essays which examine the many economic, social, and political forces that have shaped the art over years of pivotal change. The women profiled played an important role in gaining the acceptance of women as men's peers in artistic communities. Their independent spirit resonates in studios and galleries throughout the country today. Photos.
Download or read book The Book of the American West written by Jay Monaghan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents folklore and legends, heroes and villains, wars and important events in the history of the Old West. Also includes examples of Western art and music.
Download or read book Ed Ruscha and the Great American West written by Karin Breuer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career. The everyday landscapes of the West, especially as experienced from the automobileÑgas stations, billboards, building facades, parking lots, and long stretches of roadwayÑare the primary motifs of his often deadpan and instantly recognizable paintings and works on paper, as well as his influential artist books such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations and All the Buildings on the Sunset Strip. His iconic word imagesÑdeclaring Adios, Rodeo, Wheels over Indian Trails, and Honey . . . I Twisted through More Damn Traffic to Get HereÑfurther underscore a contemporary Western sensibility. RuschaÕs interest in what the real West has becomeÑand HollywoodÕs version of itÑplays out across his oeuvre. The cinematic sources of his subject matter can be seen in his silhouette pictures, which often appear to be grainy stills from old Hollywood movies. They feature images of the contemporary West, such as parking lots and swimming pools, but also of its historical past: covered wagons, buffalo, teepees, and howling coyotes. Featuring essays by Karin Breuer and D.J. Waldie, plus a fascinating interview with the artist conducted by Kerry Brougher, this stunning catalogue, produced in close collaboration with the Ruscha studio, offers the first full exploration of the painterÕs lifelong fascination with the romantic concept and modern reality of the evolving American West. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco: July 16ÐOctober 9, 2016
Download or read book The World of the American West 2 volumes written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century. What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set explores various aspects of social history—family, politics, religion, economics, and recreation—to illuminate aspects of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between the individual and the greater world. Readers will be exposed to both objective reality and subjective views of a particular culture; as a result, they can create a cohesive, accurate impression of life in the Old West during the second half of the 1800s.
Download or read book Treasures of the Old West written by Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art and published by Abradale Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of art depicting the people, life, and landscape of the Old West
Download or read book 50 Charles M Russell Paintings of the Old American West from the Amon Carter Museum written by Charles Marion Russell and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1978 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red Man s Bones George Catlin Artist and Showman written by Benita Eisler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Download or read book Remington Russell and the Art of the American West written by Kate F. Jennings and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For most of us, the art of the American West is epitomized in the work of two gifted turn-of-the-century artists: Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. Indeed, the way they jointly imagined the semi-legendary Old west to have been has now become the way we imagine it: the images of the Old West that we see today in films, in book and magazine illustrations, in retrospective paintings and sculpture, even in the theater of our own minds, are all in some degree beholden to images crystallized nearly 100 years ago by these two men. The term "crystallized" is, however, important, for Remington and Russel obviously invented neither the West nor the art that depicted it. Artists -- some of great distinction -- had been producing images of the West for a full century before Remington and Russell appeared on the scene, and Remington and Russell, for all their skill and innovative brilliance, worked within an already established tradition. They may have produced some of the most memorable expressions of that tradition, but they never broke with it. Nor have most of today's Western artists really broken with it. Even works as original and personal as the masterly paintings of Georgia O"Keeffe are strewn with such familiar elements of Western imagery as sun-bleached antelope skulls, barren, eroded hills, and stark adobe walls. If the intentions of Western artists have been as various as idioms in which they have addressed us, for 200 years the great traditions of Western art have nevertheless given their works both a common grammar and a special resonance. In this handsome portfolio of western painting and sculpture since the 1820s, author Kate F. Jennings well illustrates the continuities that underlie the seeming diversity of Western art. And by focusing in particular on Remington and Russell, she allows us to see their work in its true context -- as an especially brilliant link in what amounts to an unbroken chain, as a novel and imaginative summation of all that had gone before and a startlingly potent influence on all that would follow."--Publisher's description
Download or read book Artists of the Old West written by John Canfield Ewers and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Charles M Russel Paintings of The Old American West written by and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of the Old West written by Paul A. Rossi and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This large art book is from the collection of the Gilcrease Institute. Paintings depict the wilderness, Indians of the plains, the Missouri River, trappers and traders overland trails to Oregon & California, etc.
