- Object ID
Goetzmann, William H., author.
- Title
The West of the imagination William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann.
- Other Title
Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer Massacre) (reproduction)
Mountain of the Holy Cross (reproduction)
The Prairie Hunter, ”One Rubbed Out” (Scout Pursued by Indians) (reproduction)
Hunting Wild Horses (reproduction)
- Imprint
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2009.
- Description
xxi, 604 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
- Category
Books and Serials
- Subject
Kicking Bear,--1853-1904--Illustrations.
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam,--1819-1905--Illustrations.
Ranney, William Tylee,--1813-1857--Illustrations.
Arts, American--19th century.
Arts, American--20th century.
West (U.S.)--In art.
- Other Author
Goetzmann, William N. author.
Autry Museum of the American West. Collection reproduction.
Autry Museum of the American West. Southwest Museum Collection. Collection reproduction
- Note
Includes collection reproductions from Autry Museum of the American West (page 88: 88.108.3; page 95: 88.108.1; page 231: 91.221.49)
Includes collection reproductions from Southwest Museum Collection (page 270: 1026.G.1)
Companion volume to the PBS television series of the same title.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-586) and index.
PART ONE - THE ROMANTIC HORIZON -- The view from Peale’s Museum -- George Catlin: Saving the memory of a vanishing race -- European science and the noble savage -- The vogue for galleries and compendia: Stanley, Kane, and Easman -- ”In all their savage glory” -- The mountain man: a fair likeness -- Painting the perils of the West -- Currier and Ives and the West -- 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 El Dorado vision -- Dreaming 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 vanishing American.
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 VOICES, OTHER WESTS -- The mysterious artist of the West -- 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 -- The West of Jackson Pollock -- Photographing the postmodern West -- From the Old West to the New West: A paradox of perception -- We follow the sun: temples and tumuli in the Western landscape.
- Call Number
709.978 G63w, 2009 (OVERSIZE)
NX 653 .W47 G6 2009