Title The West as America : reinterpreting images of the frontier, 1820-1920 / edited by William H. Truettner ; with contributions by Nancy K. Anderson ... [and others]

Published Washington : Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991] ©1991

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W'PONDS	978.02074753 Tru/Waa		AVAILABLE

Description xiv, 389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm Contents An overview of westward expansion / Howard R. Lamar -- Ideology and image : justifying westward expansion / William H. Truettner -- Prelude to expansion : repainting the past / William H. Truettner -- Picturing progress in the era of westward expansion / Patricia Hills -- Inventing "the Indian" / Julie Schimmel -- Settlement and development : claiming the West / Elizabeth Johns -- "The kiss of enterprise" -- The western landscape as symbol and resource / Nancy K. Anderson -- "Doing the 'Old America'" : the image of the American West, 1880-1920 / Alex Nemerov Analysis United States History, 1809-1933 Notes "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and shown at [the] National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., March 15-July 7, 1991, the Denver Art Museum, August 3-October 13, 1991, the Saint Louis Art Museum, November 9, 1991-January 12, 1992"--T.p. verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-379) and index Notes Also issued online Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Exhibitions. SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- In art http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009000732 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655 United States -- Territorial expansion http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655 West (U.S.) -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146142 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655 West (U.S.) -- In art -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113449 Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. Author Anderson, Nancy K. Truettner, William H. Denver Art Museum. National Museum of American Art (U.S.) St. Louis Art Museum. LC no. 90041379 ISBN 1560980230 (h-cover : alk. paper) 1560980249 (paperback: alk. paper)

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