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A remarkable testament to the enduring culture, power, and myth of
the American West This handsome book displays an extraordinary
breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present,
including over 140 artists in some 320 beautiful color
reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American
artists including Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Charles M.
Russell, and Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as under-explored artists
such as Walter Ufer and Kevin Red Star, address the fascinating
topics and themes of Native American culture, American politics,
land conservation, and the implications of Manifest Destiny. The
historical art featured here helped to shape our perceptions of
Native Americans, cowboys, and western landscapes; the recent and
contemporary pieces shed a modern light on western cultures and
challenge long-held myths and assumptions about the American West.
Art of the American West is timed to coincide with the opening of a
new expansion to the Tacoma Art Museum, brilliantly designed to
house these artworks and to connect with and contribute to the
city's culture and history. Lavishly illustrated, the book also
includes insightful essays written by some of the most important
scholars working with this material today. This privately held
collection is published here for the first time. Published in
association with the Tacoma Art Museum
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book
illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history
to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered
in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading
scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the
newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the
chronological arc of the standard American history survey.
Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical
actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and
political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people,
and questions of Native American sovereignty, have animated all the
ways we consider the nation's past. The uniqueness of Indigenous
history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will
challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S.
history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and
political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the
fundamental question of what it means to be an American.
Contributors are Juliana Barr, Susan Sleeper-Smith, James D. Rice,
Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Adam Jortner, Robert J. Miller, Jean M.
O'Brien, Paul T. Conrad, Scott Manning Stevens, Jeffrey Ostler,
Phillip H. Round, Mindy J. Morgan, John J. Laukaitis, David R. M.
Beck, Rosalyn R. LaPier, Jacob Betz, Andrew Needham, Mikal Brotnov
Eckstrom, Margaret D. Jacobs, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, and Chris
Andersen.
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