Book
Plain pictures: images of the American prairie
Smithsonian Institution Press
1996
Abstract
Illustrated with 120 color and black-and-white reproductions showcasing works by George Catlin, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Bierstadt, Georgia O'Keefe and others, 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, Kinsey argues that images of the grassland, far from being plain, offer a paradox of their own: the significance of the subject is equalled only by the struggle to express it.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Plain pictures: images of the American prairie
- Creators
- Joni L Kinsey - University of Iowa, Art and Art History
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Press; Washington, D.C
- ISBN
- 9781560986300; 9781560986881; 1560986883; 1560986301
- Number of pages
- xx, 236 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- Art and Art History
- Record Identifier
- 9983995691602771
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