Contested Terrain
Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Hardback
180 pages
978-0-8263-1669-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Southwest has long beckoned the artist. But too often, art made by Euro-Americans drawn to this region has either 'basked in the sunny celebration of the picturesque, the exotic, and the sentimental' or appropriated the myths and art of Native Americans. In this collection of essays, Udall explores the work of some of he painters who have found stimulus in the ideas, people, and myths of the Southwest, among them Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Page Allen, and Woody Gwyn.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
b&w and colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-1669-1 (9780826316691)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sharyn R Udall
Content
Spiritual icons in Southwest art: the sacred mountain, pueblo cosmogony, and Euro-American landscape painting -- Into the neon sunset: a look at the sources and significance of contemporary cowboy imagery -- The irresistible other: Hopi ritual drama and Euro-American audiences -- Southwest Phoenix: Marsden Hartley's search for self in New Mexico -- Beholding the epiphanies: mysticism and the art of Georgia O'keeffe -- Models of consciousness: myth and memory in the work of Georgia O'keeffe, Eliot Porter,and Todd Webb -- Page Allen and the mythic landscape -- Woody Gwyn: landscape painting and the social meaning of the earth.