Once Upon a Time...: The Western, a New Frontier in Art and Film
Denver / Montreal / Milan: Denver Art Museum / Montreal Museum of Fine Art / 5 Continents, 2017. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Matte black boards with stamped titles and small strip of photo illustration running through the center. 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm. VG. Clean and unmarked besides a small stamp inside stating "removed from an art museums library" Item #212987
ISBN: 9788874397655
The Western is the quintessential American epic--a mythic story of nation building, triumphs, failures, and fantasies. This book accompanies the first major exhibition to examine the Western genre and its evolution from the mid-1800s in fine art, film, and popular culture, exploring gender roles, race relations, and gun violence--a story that is about more than cowboys and American Indians, pursuits and duels, or bandits and barroom brawls. From 19th-century landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Remington to works by Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Kent Monkman; from the legends of "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Billy the Kid to John Ford's classic films and Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns and recent productions by Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, and Joel and Ethan Coen, 'The Western' observes how the mythology of the West spread throughout the world and endures today. Exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (14.10.2017-04.02.2018).
OCLC: 973087279
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