Red Man's Bones George Catlin, Artist and Showman

Name: Red Man's Bones George Catlin, Artist and Showman
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ISBN: 9780393066166

ISBN-10: 0393066169

ISBN-13: 9780393066166

Edition: 2013

Authors: Benita Eisler

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George Catlin has been called the first artist of the West, even though he was neither the first to paint Indians nor to work west of the Mississippi. He created close to 600 portraits—images of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children of more than thirty tribes of the northern plains. After a failed start in Philadelphia as a portrait painter of miniatures, he became convinced that his destiny lay in seizing the images of Native Americans—on the verge of extinction by genocide (his word). In 1839, Catlin began showing live Indians, troupes of Iowas and Ojibbwa. In the process, he changed from artist to showman and from advocate to exploiter of his performers. Tragedy…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.96" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Prologue: Opening Ceremony



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 Vivans"



"Indians! Real Indians!"



George Catlin's Wild West Show



Dï¿½jï¿½ 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!"


Acknowledgments


Notes


Illustration Credits


Index