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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Type
- Biography
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780803216839
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803216831
ISBN-13
9780803216839
eBay Product ID (ePID)
584867
Product Key Features
Book Title
Catlin and His Contemporaries : the Politics of Patronage
Number of Pages
569 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Art & Politics, General, History / General
Publication Year
1990
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
44.1 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-004963
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"An engrossing story of one of the most important of the early western artists and his attempt to secure the government purchase of his Indian Gallery. It is based on sound research."-Ron Tyler, Director, Texas State Historical Association., "The best book in American cultural history that I have read in the last twenty-five years. Dippie''s organization and presentation of a very complex subject is a dazzling performance, fully matched by his brilliant and evocative writing."-William H. Goetzmann, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Stiles Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, "An engrossing story of one of the most important of the early western artists and his attempt to secure the government purchase of his Indian Gallery. It is based on sound research."-Ron Tyler, Director, Texas State Historical Association, "The best book in American cultural history that I have read in the last twenty-five years. Dippie''s organization and presentation of a very complex subject is a dazzling performance, fully matched by his brilliant and evocative writing."William H. Goetzmann, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Stiles Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, "An engrossing story of one of the most important of the early western artists and his attempt to secure the government purchase of his Indian Gallery. It is based on sound research."Ron Tyler, Director, Texas State Historical Association, "The best book in American cultural history that I have read in the last twenty-five years. Dippie's organization and presentation of a very complex subject is a dazzling performance, fully matched by his brilliant and evocative writing."-William H. Goetzmann, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Stiles Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, "The best book in American cultural history that I have read in the last twenty-five years. Dippie's organization and presentation of a very complex subject is a dazzling performance, fully matched by his brilliant and evocative writing."-William H. Goetzmann, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Stiles Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Dewey Decimal
759.13
Synopsis
George Catlin's paintings and the vision behind them have become part of our understanding of a lost America. We see the Indian past through Catlin's eyes, imagine a younger, fresher land in his bright hues. But he spent only a few years in what he considered Indian country. The rest of his long life--more than thirty years--was devoted largely to promoting, repainting, and selling his collection--in short, to seeking patronage. Catlin and His Contemporaries examines how the preeminent painter of western Indians before the Civil War went about the business of making a living from his work. Catlin shared with such artists as Seth Eastman and John Mix Stanley a desire to preserve a visual record of a race seen as doomed and competed with them for federal assistance. In a young republic with little institutional and governmental support available, painters, writers, and scholars became rivals and sometimes bitter adversaries. Brian W. Dippie untangles the complex web of interrelationships between artists, government officials, members of Congress, businessmen, antiquarians and literati, kings and queens, and the Indians themselves. In this history of the politics of patronage during the nineteenth century, luminaries like Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Henry H. Sibley, John James Audubon, Alfred Jacob Miller, and Karl Bodmer are linked with Catlin in a contest for the support of the arts, setting a precedent for later generations. That the contenders "produced so much of enduring importance under such trying circumstances," Dippie observes,"was the sought-for miracle that had seemed to elude them in their lives."
LC Classification Number
N8835.D57 1990
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