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xx, 236 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 x 26 cm |
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"The University of Iowa Museum of Art, August 17 to November 3, 1996; Amon Carter Museum, November 23, 1996 to February 25, 1997; Joslyn Museum of Art, April 19 to July 27, 1997"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: The American Prairies and the Literary Aesthetic / Wayne Fields -- Exhibition Acknowledgments / Stephen Prokopoff -- 1. Prairie Prospects: The Aesthetics of Absence -- 2. Prospecting the Prairies: Explorations, Encounters, and Enterprising Solutions -- 3. Promises of Prosperity: Cultivating the Garden -- 4. Regional Reconciliations, 1920-1940s -- 5. Competing Prospects: The Contemporary Prairie. |
| Summary |
Bountifully illustrated with 160 years of artistic responses to both the vast grasslands and agricultural expanses of the Midwest, Plain Pictures is the first book to address representations of the midwestern Prairie as a genre distinct from American western art. In a wide-ranging narrative, Joni Kinsey argues that images of the grassland, far from being plain, offer a paradox of their own: the significance of the subject is equaled only by the struggle to express it. |
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One hundred twenty color and black-and-white reproductions showcase works by George Catlin, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Bierstadt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Terry Evans, and many others. |
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Middle West -- In art.
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Prairies in art.
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Pastoral art -- United States.
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Pastoral art. (OCoLC)fst01054522
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Prairies in art. (OCoLC)fst01074621
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Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Art. (OCoLC)fst01423702
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University of Iowa. Museum of Art.
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Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.
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Joslyn Art Museum.
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| ISBN |
1560986883 (alk. paper) |
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9781560986881 (alk. paper) |
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1560986301 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781560986300 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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