Record details

• ISBN: 1560980230
• ISBN: 9781560980230
• ISBN: 1560980249
• ISBN: 9781560980247
• Physical Description: xiv, 389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
• Publisher: Washington : Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and shown at [the] National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., March 15-July 7, 1991, the Denver Art Museum, August 3-October 13, 1991, the Saint Louis Art Museum, November 9, 1991-January 12, 1992"--Title page verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-379) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

An overview of westward expansion / Howard R. Lamar -- Ideology and image : justifying westward expansion / William H. Truettner -- Prelude to expansion : repainting the past / William H. Truettner -- Picturing progress in the era of westward expansion / Patricia Hills -- Inventing "the Indian" / Julie Schimmel -- Settlement and development : claiming the West / Elizabeth Johns -- "The kiss of enterprise" -- The western landscape as symbol and resource / Nancy K. Anderson -- "Doing the 'Old America'" : the image of the American West, 1880-1920 / Alex Nemerov.

Additional Physical Form available Note:

Also issued online.

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Subject:

Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Exhibitions.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel > Exhibitions.
United States > Territorial expansion > Exhibitions.
West (U.S.) > In art > Exhibitions.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Territorial expansion.
Travel.
United States.
United States, West.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.