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Visions of the Big Sky : painting and photographing the northern Rocky Mountain West

Title
Visions of the Big Sky : painting and photographing the northern Rocky Mountain West / Dan Flores.
ISBN
9780806138978 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010.
Physical Description
ix, 234 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Selections from the author's column "Images of the West" which originally appeared in the Big sky journal.
Variant and related titles
Big sky journal.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2010
Series
Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 5.
The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 5
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index.
Contents
Ancient ecstasies
Visualizing Lewis and Clark and the meaning of the West
The eye and the heart in George Catlin's West
Karl Bodmer's gift
Alfred Jacob Miller's new Western American
Jesus and animus beneath the Bitterroots
An entire Heaven and an entire Earth
Albert Bierstadt and the mountains of Mars
Thomas Moran's Rocky Mountain romance
Coming to terms with the Little Bighorn
Altitude equals beatitude : William Henry Jackson and the northern Rockies
L.A. Huffman and the frontier disconnect
Catching shadows in the northern West
Through Indian eyes : the Crows and Richard Throssel
Evelyn Cameron's time machine
Carl Rungius and the son of wild folk
Loving the West, hating the West, painting the West : the troubled times
Of Fra Dana
Frederic Remington's kiss of death
Maynard and Montana
Winold Reiss's beautiful Blackfeet
Motion and poetry
The bear in the mirror
Emily Carr and the Great Mother
The ripples beyond Ansel Adams
In the end, what was Charlie Russell trying to tell us?
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