Plain pictures : images of the American prairie

Plain pictures : images of the American prairie /

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 Ki...

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Author / Contributor: Kinsey, Joni
Corporate Authors: University of Iowa. Museum of Art, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Joslyn Art Museum
Imprint: Washington : Published for the University of Iowa Museum of Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Middle West > In art.
Prairies in art.
Pastoral art > United States.
Pastoral art.
Middle West.
United States.
Art.
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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