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Book Karl Bodmer  1809 1893

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nordamerika Native Museum
  • Publisher : Scheidegger and Spiess
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Karl Bodmer 1809 1893 written by Nordamerika Native Museum and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1832, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-93) set out with Maximilian Prince of Wied, a German aristocrat and scientist, on a 28-month journey along the Ohio and Missouri rivers. For Bodmer, the expedition resulted in more than 400 watercolors and sketches of Native American people, landscapes, animals, and plants. Engravings of many of the images were subsequently used to illustrate Travels in the Interior of North America, Prince Maximilian's well-known historical account. Karl Bodmer is an homage to the great painter who captured for the rest of the world so many important natural details of early America. Presented here are all 81 engravings used to illustrate Maximilian's book, and 9 of Bodmer's original watercolors and sketches, as well as photographs of artifacts collected during the legendary passage. Bodmer's detailed work is among the most important documents of Native American culture from that region. Almost all of these images are held today in public collections in the United States, including large collections at the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. Karl Bodmer is a richly illustrated volume that brings to life a monumental event in both art history and the history of early America.

Book Travels in the Interior of North America

Download or read book Travels in the Interior of North America written by Maximilian Wied (Prinz von) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Karl Bodmer s America

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  • Author : Karl Bodmer
  • Publisher : Bison Books
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780803211858
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Karl Bodmer s America written by Karl Bodmer and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the nineteenth-century Swiss artist's watercolors and drawings of the American West, Indians, and Western wildlife

Book Faces from the Interior

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  • Author : Toby Jurovics
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-09
  • ISBN : 9781735441641
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Faces from the Interior written by Toby Jurovics and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early nineteenth century, Prince Maximilian Of Wied traveled the length of the Missouri River on an excursion to uncover what he called "the natural face of North America"-its landscapes, flora and fauna, and particularly its Native inhabitants. Among his small party was the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), who would prove to be one of the most accomplished and prolific artists to visit the American frontier. Departing St. Louis in April 1833, Bodmer and Maximilian would travel over 2,500 miles through the heart of North America before reaching Fort McKenzie in present-day Montana, spending time among the Omaha, Otoe, and Pawnee; the Yankton and Santee Sioux; and the Assiniboines, Plains Cree, Blackfeet, Piegans, Bloods, and Gros Ventre. At their winter quarters at Fort Clark, they made intimate acquaintances among the Mandan and Hidatsa. Bodmer's watercolors, executed in the field and upon his return to Europe, remain one of the most perceptive and compelling visual accounts of the American West, and are an invaluable record of the Missouri River and its Indigenous communities at a pivotal historic moment. Drawn from Joslyn Art Museum's renowned Maximilian-Bodmer Collection, this is the first publication to focus on Bodmer as a portraitist. The catalog includes essays examining Bodmer's artistic practice within the context of nineteenth-century ethnography; the international dissemination of his images; and the ongoing significance of his work to Indigenous communities. Over 50 watercolor portraits are reproduced, accompanied by a selection of the artist's landscapes, camp, and ceremonial sites"--

Book Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States

Download or read book Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021

Book The Lonesome Trail

Download or read book The Lonesome Trail written by John G. Neihardt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North American Indian Portfolio

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  • Author : George Catlin
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-03-30
  • ISBN : 9781497934269
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book North American Indian Portfolio written by George Catlin and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1844 Edition.

Book The Taos Society of Artists

Download or read book The Taos Society of Artists written by Robert Rankin White and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive documentary history of the Society that made the northern New Mexico town famous as an art colony.

Book Church of the Social Revolution

Download or read book Church of the Social Revolution written by Bouck White and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lewis and Clark Among the Indians  Bicentennial Edition

Download or read book Lewis and Clark Among the Indians Bicentennial Edition written by James P. Ronda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""

Book The Western Pilot

Download or read book The Western Pilot written by Samuel Cumings and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Omaha Tribe

Download or read book The Omaha Tribe written by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George Catlin

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  • Author : George Catlin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book George Catlin written by George Catlin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvania-born artist, writer and showman whose portraits of Native Americans are among the most important representation of indigenous peoples ever made.

Book Discovering Lewis   Clark from the Air

Download or read book Discovering Lewis Clark from the Air written by and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANNOTATION: In Discovering Lewis and Clark from the Air, aerial photographer Jim Wark and Lewis and Clark scholar Joseph A. Mussulman offer a fascinating new perspective on the Corps' historic journey. From Monticello in the east to Fort Clatsop on the Pacific coast, the wild continent the expedition crossed is revealed anew in breathtaking full-color photographs. Well-researched text accompanies each photo, including quotes from the explorers' journals. The view from above provides new information about the Corps' experience and stirs fresh wonder at their achievement.

Book Believe in Yourself  What We Learned from Arthur

Download or read book Believe in Yourself What We Learned from Arthur written by Marc Brown and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of memorable scenes, quotes, and lessons from the Arthur series of books and television shows that explores the ups and downs of life"--

Book Scattershooting

Download or read book Scattershooting written by Blackie Sherrod and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles from Dallas Morning News columnist, Blackie Sherrod.

Book Karl Bodmer s America Revisited

Download or read book Karl Bodmer s America Revisited written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied—a German naturalist—and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors—designed to illustrate Maximilian’s journals—now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer’s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip up the Missouri River. To discover how the areas Bodmer depicted have changed over time, photographer Robert M. Lindholm and anthropologist W. Raymond Wood made several trips over a period of years, from 1985 to 2002, to locate and record the same sites—all the way from Boston Harbor, where Maximilian and Bodmer began their journey, to Fort McKenzie, in modern-day western Montana. Pairing sixty-seven Bodmer works side by side with Lindholm’s photographs of the same sites, this volume uses the comparison of old and new images to reveal alterations through time—and the encroachment of a built environment—across diverse landscapes. Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited is at once a tribute to the artistic achievements of a premier landscape artist and a photographer who followed in his footsteps, and a valuable record of America’s ever-changing environment.