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Red Man's Bones

Name: Red Man's Bones
Brand: WW Norton & Co
SKU: 9780393066166
Price: 8805 HUF
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George Catlin, Artist and Showman

Szerző: Benita Eisler

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: WW Norton & Co

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten alacsony példányszámban

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George Catlin has been called the first artist of the West, as none before him lived among and paint...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Benita Eisler

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2013

oldal

480

EAN

9780393066166

ISBN

0393066169

Enbook ID

04603741

Kiadó

WW Norton & Co

Súly

874

Méretek

243 x 170 x 37

Teljes leírás

George Catlin has been called the first artist of the West, as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a vanishing race before their extermination his word by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin s ambition to sell what he called his Indian Gallery as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour live troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success."