This handsome volume--featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in color--is the first book exclusively devoted to Charles Deas. In two major essays, Carol Clark presents Deas's haunting biography and complex art--works that embodied Americans' uncertainty about the future of their rapidly expanding nation, especially in the contested spaces of the West. Ranging from Indian genre scenes to more violent and bizarre themes drawn from literature and his own imagination, Deas's images reverberate with the racial tensions and ...
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This handsome volume--featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in color--is the first book exclusively devoted to Charles Deas. In two major essays, Carol Clark presents Deas's haunting biography and complex art--works that embodied Americans' uncertainty about the future of their rapidly expanding nation, especially in the contested spaces of the West. Ranging from Indian genre scenes to more violent and bizarre themes drawn from literature and his own imagination, Deas's images reverberate with the racial tensions and cut-throat economic competition of the period.
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Add this copy of Charles Deas and 1840s America: Volume 4 to cart. $42.90, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2009 by University of Oklahoma Press.
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p. Contains: Illustrations, color, Frontispiece. The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West.
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