In the Remington moment / Stephen Tatum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatum, Stephen, 1949-

Contributor:

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--United States.

Art and society.

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909--Criticism and interpretation.

Remington, Frederic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most people, the work of Frederic Remington conjures an antiquarian world of all things "western." Why this is so, and whether it should be so, are two of the critical questions raised in this book. Stephen Tatum closely considers selected paintings from Remington's last four years of life-his so-called years of critical acclaim. Tatum's purpose is twofold: first, to understand these paintings, both formally and thematically, within their historical, aesthetic, and biographical contexts; and second, to account for what endows them today-after marking the centennial of Remington's death in 1909-with continuing aesthetic and cultural significance. To this end, Tatum examines these late paintings in relation to Remington's other works, his letters and published writings, his evolving critical reception, and the writing and artwork of other cultural figures of the era, such as historian Frederick Jackson Turner and sociologist Georg Simmel. The book provides an illuminating glimpse of how and why particular Remington works might seize a viewer's attention in his or her past or present moment of reception-how in fact their unstable visual complexity can ultimately absorb their viewer. In his "Coda, " Tatum offers a personal memoir of his own encounter with Remington's The Love Call, a critical meditation enacting and questioning the "Remington Moment."

Contents:

Introduction. In the Remington moment

Looking at water. On Coming to the call (1905)

Looking at sky. On With the eye of the mind (1908)

Looking at fire. On The hunter's supper (c. 1909)

- Looking at Earth. On The outlier (1909)

Coda. In the Remington moment, Part two; or, The love call.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612749339

9781282749337

1282749331

9780803230385

0803230389

OCLC:

664682084