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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Art |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William H Goetzmann; William N Goetzmann |
ISBN: | 0393023702 9780393023701 |
OCLC Number: | 13524439 |
Notes: | Companion volume to the PBS television series of the same title. |
Description: | xviii, 458 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Other Titles: | West of the imagination (Television program) |
Responsibility: | William H. Goetzmann & William N. Goetzmann. |
Abstract:
Companion volume to the PBS television series.
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