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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Miscellanies
Author: The Library Miscellany
Author: Catlin and His Contemporaries
Author: Brian W. DippiePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
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?wasødevoted 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."
The Cincinnati Miscellany, or, Antiquities of the West, and Pioneer History and Heneral and Local Statistics
Author: Charles CistPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368871951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Hall's Journal of Health and Miscellany
Author: The Cincinnati Miscellany, Or, Antiquities of the West, and Pioneer History and General and Local Statistics: From October 1st, 1844 to April 1st, 1845
Author: The Historical and Scientific American Miscellany
Author: Robert SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review
Author: The Cincinnati Miscellany
Author: The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478840
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.