Albert Bierstadt (Buffalo Bill Center of the West.)
Title:
Albert Bierstadt : witness to a changing West / by Peter H. Hassrick ; with contributions by Arthur Amiotte, Emily C. Burns, Dan L. Flores, Laura F. Fry, Karen B. McWhorter, and Melissa W. Speidel ; foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xxi, 217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Foreword / Bruce B. Eldredge -- Prologue : enduring relationships-indigenous Plains people and the bison / Arthur Amiotte -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Karen McWhorter -- "A different class of mountains" : Albert Bierstadt's remarkable career and critical reception / Laura F. Fry -- Albert Bierstadt : witness to a changing West / Peter H. Hassrick -- Art, ethnography, and politics : the transnational context of Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo in Paris / Emily C. Burns -- Albert Bierstadt : animal painter / Melissa W. Speidel -- Silence and emptiness : the American Plains in the age of Bierstadt / Dan L. Flores.
Summary:
As one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. Yet Bierstadt was also a painter of history, and his figural works, replete with images of Plains Indians and the American bison, are an important part of his legacy as well. This full-color volume highlights his achievements in chronicling a rapidly changing American West.
Series:
Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West, The
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