Elevating western American art : developing an institute in the cultural capital of the Rockies / edited by Thomas Brent Smith ; introduction by Marlene Chambers.
"Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the museum's Petrie Institute of western American Art, the volume includes thirty es...
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| Language: | English |
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Denver : Norman, OK :
Petrie Institute of Western American Art ; Distributed by University of Oklahoma Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Western passages.
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| Summary: | "Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the museum's Petrie Institute of western American Art, the volume includes thirty essays by art historiasn from across the Unives States and Canada on topis in western American art and on more than twenty of the mseum's undisputed masterworks. ... Special attention is paid, as well, to contemporary works of western American art and to objects that relate to western American art but are displayed an cared for in other museum departments."--book jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780914738718 (pbk.) 0914738712 (pbk.) 9780914738725 (hbk.) 0914738720 (hbk.) |