Discovered Land, Invented Pasts
Transforming Visions of the American West
Published on 26. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
234 pages
978-0-300-05731-7 (ISBN)
Description
A common theme of western American art is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this book, the authors look at western American art of the past three centuries, re-evaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history and American studies.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
132 illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Weight
775 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-05731-7 (9780300057317)
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Author
Assistant Curator, American and British Painting, National Gallery of Art, USA
Professor of History, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Professor of History, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Director, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
Project Coordinator, American Arts Office, Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA
Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Introduction
Content
"Curious historical artistic data" - art history and Western American art, N. Anderson; telling tales on canvas - landscapes of frontier change, W. Cronon; the moving finger writes - Western art and the dynamics of change, B.W. Dipple; the absent other - women in the land of mountain men, S.P. Prendergast; the public life of Western art, M.A. Sandweiss; looking backward, looking forward - selected themes in Western art since 1900.