Karl Bodmer's North American Prints
Title | Karl Bodmer's North American Prints PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Bodmer |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780803213265 |
In 1832, twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer was employed to create a "faithful and vivid image" of America and its people. This book contains 431 illustrations (most in color), which reflect the updating of Bodmer's documenting process, and essays and appendices elucidating all aspects of the project.
Karl Bodmer's America
Title | Karl Bodmer's America PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Bodmer |
Publisher | Bison Books |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780803211858 |
Looks at the nineteenth-century Swiss artist's watercolors and drawings of the American West, Indians, and Western wildlife
Karl Bodmer's America Revisited
Title | Karl Bodmer's America Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-07-05 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0806189126 |
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.
Travels in the Interior of North America
Title | Travels in the Interior of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Maximilian Wied (Prinz von) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Karl Bodmer's America
Title | Karl Bodmer's America PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Hunt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Karl Bodmer's Studio Art
Title | Karl Bodmer's Studio Art PDF eBook |
Author | W. Raymond Wood |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780252027567 |
"During the expedition, twenty-three-year-old Bodmer sketched and painted a wealth of landscapes and Native American portraits that would be immortalized as engravings in Maximilian's published journals and accompanying atlas. Now considered the most vivid and instructive depiction of the nineteenth-century American West and its people prior to the decimation of many Plains tribes by disease, Bodmer's artwork continues to intrigue historians, scholars, and collectors.".
Faces from the Interior
Title | Faces from the Interior PDF eBook |
Author | Toby Jurovics |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2021-04-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781735441641 |
"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"--