The American West: Out of Myth, into Reality

by Hassrick, Peter H.; Hassrick, Peter H.; Mississippi Museum of Art

• ISBN13: 9781882507085
• ISBN10: 1882507088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Author Biography

Peter H. Hassrick, the Charles Marion Russell Chair in art history at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, is also director of the university's Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	8	(2)
Lenders to the Exhibition	10	(5)
THE ELEMENTS OF WESTERN ART
Charles Marion Russell Chair, The University of Oklahoma	15	(156)
Peter H. Hassrick
OUT OF MYTH INTO REALITY
Essays contributed
Donna Davies
Bradley A. Finson
Stephanie Foster Rahill
Inventing the Western American Myth	61	(4)
Fresh Insights	65	(4)
Artists' Quests: Exploration/Exploitation	69	(5)
Symbols of Progress and Conquest	74	(11)
Noble Savage and Heroic Civilizer	85	(5)
Violence and Masculinity	90	(5)
Artist-Naturalists	95	(16)
The Indian Galleries	111	(8)
At Peace with the Far West	119	(5)
Cultures in Conflict	124	(7)
The Minute versus the Grand	131	(11)
Fatalist Discourse	142	(6)
Phantom Heroes	148	(11)
Modernism and the Indian	159	(8)
Rare but Remarkable	167	(4)
Notes	171	(1)
Further Reading	172	(1)
Index of Artists	173