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Plain Pictures: Image of the American Prairie

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Plain Pictures: Image of the American Prairie - Kinsey, Joni Louise, and Fields, Wayne (Preface by)
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Illustrated with 120 color and black-and-white reproductions showcasing works by George Catlin, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Bierstadt, Georgia O'Keefe and others, Plain Pictures is the first book to address representations of the midwestern prairie as a genre distinct from American western art. In a wide-ranging narrative, Kinsey argues that images of the grassland, far from being plain, offer a paradox of their own: the significance of the subject is equalled only by the struggle to express it.

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Plain Pictures: Image of the American Prairie 1996, Smithsonian Books (DC), Washington, DC

ISBN-13: 9781560986300

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