The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
About the Series
The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West publishes high-quality, well-illustrated books, including scholarly monographs and artist’s books, that focus on visual representation and the American West. The series features argument-driven analyses that probe the relationships between identity, representation, place, and myths of the West through close examination of art, visual culture, and material culture produced by all makers in the fluid regions of the American West, including settler and Native American artists, as well as those from around the world who imagine the West from outside its borders.
Emily Burns, Series Editor
Emily C. Burns is Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and Associate Professor of Art History, School of Visual Arts, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Please direct inquiries or proposals to [email protected].
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Picturing Migrants
The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography
Fully exploring this complex connection for the first time, Picturing Migrants offers new insight into Steinbeck’s novel and the FSA’s photography—and into the circumstances that have made them enduring icons of the Depression.
Framing First Contact
From Catlin to Russell
In Framing First Contact author Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about the process of constructing national myths—and how those myths acquired different meanings at different points in our nation’s history.
Through a Native Lens
American Indian Photography
Drawing from tribal and state archives, libraries, museums, and individual collections, Through a Native Lens features photographs—including some never before published—that range from formal portraits to casual snapshots. The images represent multiple tribal communities across Native North America, including the Inland Tlingit, Northern Paiute, and Kiowa.
Western Art, Western History
Collected Essays
Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, Western Art, Western History tells the stories of key artists, both famous and obscure, whose provocative pictures document the people and places of the nineteenth-century American West.
Visions of the Tallgrass
Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne
Through interwoven images and words, Visions of the Tallgrass shows that our nation’s grasslands are sacred ground, a priceless piece of our American past—and future.
Centering Modernism
J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art
Featuring nearly one hundred full-color reproductions of McVicker’s works, Centering Modernism showcases the extraordinary range of his artistry. As the first comprehensive survey of McVicker’s career and oeuvre, this volume is also the story of American modernism in all its diversity.
Painters of the Northwest
Impressionism to Modernism, 1900–1930
In this groundbreaking work, John Impert introduces readers to the rich and varied array of artists and works of art that defined the region’s artistic transition from a nature-bound impressionism to the arrival of modernism.
Narrating the Landscape
Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.
Charles M. Russell
Photographing the Legend
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. More than that, the book shows how the Cowboy Artist personified what he portrayed.
Transnational Frontiers
The American West in France
For French artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the construction of an American cultural identity, offering a chance to debate ideas of primitivism and masculinity that bolstered their own colonialist discourses. By examining this process, Burns reveals the interconnections between American western art and Franco-American artistic exchange between 1865 and 1915.
Picturing Migrants
The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography
Framing First Contact
From Catlin to Russell
Through a Native Lens
American Indian Photography
Western Art, Western History
Collected Essays
Visions of the Tallgrass
Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne
Centering Modernism
J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art
Painters of the Northwest
Impressionism to Modernism, 1900–1930
Narrating the Landscape
Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
Charles M. Russell
Photographing the Legend
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. More than that, the book shows how the Cowboy Artist personified what he portrayed.