The West as America : reinterpreting images of the frontier, 1820-1920 /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	National Museum of American Art (U.S.), Denver Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum
Other Authors:	Truettner, William H., Anderson, Nancy K.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]
Subjects:	Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Exhibitions. Exhibitions > West (U.S.) West (U.S.) > In art > Exhibitions. United States > Territorial expansion > Exhibitions.
ISBN:	1560980230 (h-cover : alk. paper) 1560980249 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

An overview of westward expansion / Howard R. Lamar
Ideology and image : justifying westward expansion / William H. Truettner
Prelude to expansion : repainting the past / William H. Truettner
Picturing progress in the era of westward expansion / Patricia Hills
Inventing "the Indian" / Julie Schimmel
Settlement and development : claiming the West / Elizabeth Johns
"The kiss of enterprise"
The western landscape as symbol and resource / Nancy K. Anderson
"Doing the 'Old America'" : the image of the American West, 1880-1920 / Alex Nemerov.

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