| Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West Contributor(s): Kinsey, Joni Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 1560981709 ISBN-13: 9781560981701 Publisher: Smithsonian Books OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1992 Annotation: Analyzing in great detail three of Thomas Moran's monumental paintings of the American West, the author describes how they bespoke a new national identity of both failure and promise and helped open the West for tourism and travel. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | American - General - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 759.13 |
| LCCN: 91023705 |
| Series: New Directions in American Art |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 9.05" W x 9.94" (1.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Presenting the first in-depth study of Thomas Moran's early western landscapes, Joni Louise Kinsey describes how the artist created three monumental paintings--The Grand Ca on of the Yellowstone (1872), The Chasm of the Colorado (1873-74), and The Mountain of the Holy Cross (1875)--that, in the aftermath of the Civil War, evoked the nation's spiritual journey and suggestsed its cultural upheaval. The author describes how the paintings reflected a new national identity of both failure and promise, and helped open the West for tourism and travel. |