A Strange Mixture
Charles M. Russell
The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians By Sascha T. Scott
Photographing the Legend By Larry Len Peterson
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280 PAGES · 9 × 11 · 58 COLOR AND 30 B&W ILLUS.
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VOLUME 16
448 PAGES · 10 × 12 · 344 B&W AND COLOR ILLUS. VOLUME 15
Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.
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Born in 1864 to a well-to-do family in St. Louis, Charles M. Russell was smitten early on by the burgeoning art of photography and the images of the West that were proliferating as rapidly as the frontier was disappearing. Larry Len Peterson traces Russell’s image and his career from these first adventures to his apotheosis as an artist, and then to his California period and his final days as the grand statesman of the American West. This biography makes use of hundreds of images of Russell, many never before published, to explore the role of photography in shaping the artist’s public image and the making and selling of his art.
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West