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Plain pictures, images of the American prairie, Joni L. Kinsey

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Plain pictures, images of the American prairie, Joni L. Kinsey

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Plain pictures

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bibliography

Oclc number

33665865

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Joni L. Kinsey

Sub title

images of the American prairie

Summary

Bountifully illustrated with 160 years of artistic responses to both the vast grasslands and agricultural expanses of the Midwest, Plain Pictures is the first book to address representations of the midwestern Prairie as a genre distinct from American western art. In a wide-ranging narrative, Joni Kinsey argues that images of the grassland, far from being plain, offer a paradox of their own: the significance of the subject is equaled only by the struggle to express itOne hundred twenty color and black-and-white reproductions showcase works by George Catlin, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Bierstadt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Terry Evans, and many others

Table Of Contents

Foreword: The American Prairies and the Literary Aesthetic / Wayne Fields -- Exhibition Acknowledgments / Stephen Prokopoff -- 1. Prairie Prospects: The Aesthetics of Absence -- 2. Prospecting the Prairies: Explorations, Encounters, and Enterprising Solutions -- 3. Promises of Prosperity: Cultivating the Garden -- 4. Regional Reconciliations, 1920-1940s -- 5. Competing Prospects: The Contemporary Prairie

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