Western United States - History - General & Miscellaneous, Material Culture, Frontier & Pioneer Life - Western United States, Regional Studies - Western U.S., Popular Culture - United States, Landscapes & Places in Art, Art of the American West
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Overview
Published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary year of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California, West-Fever explores the mythical and factual West through the art, artifacts and objects of popular culture in the museum's collection.Editorials
Library Journal
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, noted Western scholar Dippie (history, Univ. of Victoria) provides an overview of the historical context for the museum's collections. Color images of selected paintings and drawings, sculptures, movie posters, buckskin shirts, saddles and guns, and other artifacts and ephemera illustrate his thought-provoking essay. Although Dippie conceived his text as "free-floating," it does use the voices of artist Charles M. Russell and others as links through 12 defined themes. The last, "Then we came down to the sea" (about California's role in the real West and Hollywood's role in promoting in the myth), neatly brings it all home, since the Autry Museum is in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the black paper that alternates throughout the book breaks the visual continuity of facing pages, and its surface coating picks up fingerprints. Still, this is recommended for all libraries that collect comprehensively on America's West.--Anne Marie Lane, American Heritage Ctr., Laramie, WYBook Details
Published
June 30, 1998
Publisher
Los Angeles : Autry Museum of Western Heritage ; c1998.
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780295977355