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The American west : out of myth, into reality / Peter H. Hassrick, guest curator.

Washington, D.C. : Trust for Museum Exhibitions in association with the Mississippi Museum of Art, ©2000.

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cm

"Since the 1980s - much of western history and art has been reevaluated. Its rosy ambience has been tinged with allegations of sexism, ethnocentrism, imperialism, and economic exploitation. The exhibition The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality, for which this volume is the catalogue, explores some of these new insights and perspectives and seeks to reconcile these with entrenched myth. The emerging realities add to the fascinating story of the West in art and enhance our appreciation of the region, its people, and its pictorial legacy."--Jacket.

Art, American -- Exhibitions.

Art, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

West (U.S.) -- In art -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Hassrick, Peter H.

Mississippi Museum of Art.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson.

Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.

The Elements of Western Art / Peter H. Hassrick -- Out of Myth into Reality / Donna Davies, Bradley A. Finson and Stephanie Foster Rahill -- Inventing the Western American Myth -- Fresh Insights -- Artists' Quests: Exploration/Exploitation -- Symbols of Progress and Conquest -- Noble Savage and Heroic Civilizer -- Violence and Masculinity -- Artist-Naturalists -- The Indian Galleries -- At Peace with the Far West -- Cultures in Conflict -- The Minute versus the Grand -- Fatalist Discourse -- Phantom Heroes -- Modernism and the Indian -- Rare but Remarkable.

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