Record details

• ISBN: 0393023702
• ISBN: 9780393023701
• Physical Description: xviii, 458 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Companion volume to the PBS television series of the same title.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-446).

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one : The romantic horizon -- The view from Peale's museum -- George Catlin : saving the memory of a vanishing race -- The vogue for galleries and compendia: Stanley, Kane, and Eastman -- European science and the noble savage -- The mountain man : a fair likeness -- Part two : The golden land -- Destiny and democracy -- Shattering the rim of Christendom -- Picturing manifest destiny -- The great reconnaissance -- Overland to an empire : dream, nightmare and reality -- The Eldorado vision -- Epilogue in San Francisco -- Part three : Images of glory -- Bierstadt's mighty mountains -- The wonders of Yosemite -- Artist and photographer in wonderland -- The grandest canyon of them all -- Images of progress -- Episodes of glory --- Views of tragedy -- The resurrection of the romantic red man -- Part four : The wild riders -- Frederic Remington : no teacup tragedies -- C.M. Russell : the cowboy genius -- Part five : Play the legend -- The American scout triumphant -- Cowboys and cameramen -- Pictures tell the story -- Cowboys create history -- Westerns make history -- Part six : Other voice, other wests -- Escape to Taos -- Left bank of the Rio Hondo -- What have you done with your land? -- The Indian renaissance -- Montezuma's return -- The transcendent West of Georgia O'Keeffe.

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West (U.S.) > In art.
Arts, American > 19th century.
Arts, American > 20th century.
Arts, American.
United States, West.
Wilder Westen
Kunst
USA.
West (U.S.) > Art.
Art, American > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Art.
Art, American > West (U.S.)

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Art.
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