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The Red Man's bones : George Catlin, artist and showman / Benita Eisler.
Fine Arts Library ND237.C35 E39 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisler, Benita.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
- Catlin, George.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- United States.
- Indians in art.
- Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
- Indians of North America.
- West (U.S.)--In art.
- West (U.S.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
- Contents:
- Homecoming
- Away
- George Catlin, academician
- A journeyman artist
- Wanderers
- A free man
- Savage and civilized tribes
- Border crossings
- The fur fortress
- "White medicine man"
- A stranger in paradise
- O-kee-pa
- "Problems of shade, shadow and perspective"
- A man who makes pictures for a traveling show
- "We are invaders of a sacred soil"
- "Catlin encamped, wolves in the distance"
- Flight paths
- The Pipestone Quarry
- A "go-a-head" artist
- "Without fortune and without patronage"
- The great and the good
- High society
- "Tableaux villains"
- "Indians! Real Indians!"
- George Catlin's wild west show
- Déjà vu, all over again
- A flight of royals
- "A thing belonging to us"
- Magical mystery tours
- "Now I am G. Catlin again, look out for the paint!"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-442) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393066166
- 0393066169
- OCLC:
- 783163556
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