Since its founding in 1988, the Autry Museum of the American West
has expanded its vision and its collections in profound ways. From
its original focus on the history, art, and popular culture
inspired by the West and its attendant myths, the museum - located
in the heart of Los Angeles - has evolved to embrace a more
inclusive, complex, and contemporary approach to the American West.
Featuring more than 150 color images, this volume highlights the
museum's Art of the West exhibit. Alongside these celebrated works
of art, Art of the West showcases essays by prominent scholars and
art historians who address various topics, ranging from motorcycles
to beadwork and photography. Essays devoted to women's art, Native
American art, and Chicano photography are important correctives to
more traditional and linear models of western art history, with its
emphasis on rugged masculinity, Anglo-American pioneers, and the
myth of an ""untamed"" frontier. As Autry Museum curator Amy Scott
explains in her introduction, there is not one West; instead, many
Wests, comprising diverse collections of places and peoples, form a
""complex tapestry of ethnic mixing and geopolitical spaces,
diaspora, immigration, industry, infrastructure, tourism, and
environmental degradation."" By addressing such provocative themes,
Art of the West challenges us to look beyond surface appearances,
superficial caricatures, and cultural assumptions. The American
West emerges as a dynamic place in which memory informs, but does
not determine, the present.
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