Thomas Gilcrease and His National Treasure
Title | Thomas Gilcrease and His National Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Genre painting |
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After Lewis & Clark
Title | After Lewis & Clark PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Allen Hood |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780806199597 |
More than sixty paintings, drawings, and prints inspired during the sixty-five years of exploration in the West after the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey are featured in this collection of historical artwork by George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Seth Eastman, Charles Bird King, and other notable artists of the nineteenth-century American West.
Culture in the American Southwest
Title | Culture in the American Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Keith L. Bryant |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 581 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1623492084 |
If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.
Icons of the West
Title | Icons of the West PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Greenbaum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
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A detailed study of the twenty-two sculptures created by Remington, contrasting authentic lifetime castings with fraudulent examples.
Thomas Gilcrease
Title | Thomas Gilcrease PDF eBook |
Author | David Randolph Milsten |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Collectors and collecting |
ISBN | 9780962429729 |
Cherokee Family Researcher
Title | Cherokee Family Researcher PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Cherokee Indians |
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The Treasures of Gilcrease
Title | The Treasures of Gilcrease PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Art, American |
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