Thomas Gilcrease and His National Treasure
Author : Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Genre painting
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Author : Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Genre painting
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art, American
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Author : Keith L. Bryant
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : 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.
Author : Gary Allen Hood
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : 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.
Author : Michael D. Greenbaum
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
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A detailed study of the twenty-two sculptures created by Remington, contrasting authentic lifetime castings with fraudulent examples.
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Cherokee Indians
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Author : David Randolph Milsten
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Collectors and collecting
ISBN : 9780962429729
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Publisher : National Register Publishing
Page : 1582 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 1992-12
Category : Museums
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Author : Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art, American
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Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : MacMillan Reference Library
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
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"The Encyclopedia focuses on the people and peoples of the West, approaching the region as a collection of multiethnic frontiers and as the spawning ground for an array of industries and enterprises that each gave rise to its own culture and carried with it important ecological consequences."--p. xi.