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DENVER ART MUSEUM. Heart Of The West: New Ppainting And Sculpture Of The American West.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: . s Softcover. Brand new book.
A tribute to contemporary realist western art. Because western art is by definition topical, it is also by necessity representational, and often narrative. Western artists must therefore rely on a certain degree of realism to express themselves visually. While this tendency toward realism is out of keeping with abstract impressionism, which dominated the art world in the latter half of the twentieth century, it resonates positively with today's audiences. Since the early 1990s, the Denver Art Museum has collected and exhibited the works of living American artists who celebrate western themes through representational forms of creative expression. Heart of the West pays tribute to those artists, in particular to the remarkable George Carlson. Their images embody the essence of the evolving American West.
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DENVER ART MUSEUM. Redrawing Boundaries: Perspectives On Western American Art.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2008. First Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Thoughtful essays on the status of western American art. Memorial to a passing era? Mistress to history? Illustration of popular legend? Where is the art in traditional narrative western art? Is it kitsch or Kunst? In this volume, seven distinguished specialists on art and popular cultureÑBrian W. Dippie, Erika Doss, Peter H. Hassrick, Patricia Limerick, Angela Miller, Martha A. Sandweiss, and William H. TruettnerÑsurvey the terrain of western art in the twenty-first century, tracing and refining its boundaries in the areas of aesthetics and national identity. Their sharp-eyed observations support a newly emerging history of western art that places it in a social, psychological, and politicalÑas well as aestheticÑcontext. The result is a refreshing, vigorous, and substantial contribution to American art history. Includes 90 color illustrations.
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DENVER ART MUSEUM; DALEY, ANN SCARLETT (INTRODUCTORY ESSAY). Sweet On The West: How Candy Built A Colorado Treasure.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2008. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Explores the legacy of the Harmsen family. William and Dorothy Harmsen were true American entrepreneurs whose ice-cream store, founded in 1949, grew into the wildly successful Jolly Rancher Candy Company. This volume highlights the Harmsens' legacy as Colorado businesspeople and philanthropists. Bill and Dorothy lived their passion for the West, among other ways, through art. Beginning in 1967, they built a collection that broadly encompassed the American West. They bought works by recognized masters of American western art such as George Catlin and Ernest L. Blumenschein, but they also acquired works by artists exploring contemporary approaches to time-honored western themes. Ann Scarlett Daley's lively introductory essay details the story of the Harmsens' success in building both their business and their collection. Following her essay is a full-color gallery of treasures of the Harmsen Collection, along with commentaries by scholars of American art.
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DENVER ART MUSEUM. West Point Points West.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2008. First Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Celebrates the contributions of West Point artists to the interpretation of the American West. To twenty-first-century observers, artistic training may seem an unnecessary frill in a soldier's education. But during the nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, military officers were expected to sketch battlefields and design fortifications. Officers of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, which organized exploring expeditions, were asked to return with the information needed to map the expanding American West. Thus, the Military Academy at West Point incorporated art into its curriculum within a year after its creation in 1802. West Point Points West celebrates the confluence of military mission and artistic pursuit. Five distinguished scholarsÑB. Byron Price, David Reel, John Pultz, Roger Echo-Hawk, and Joan Carpenter TroccoliÑoffer varying perspectives on the seminal role played by West Point and the U.S. Army in the development of western American art.
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