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Plain pictures
images of the American prairie
By Kinsey, Joni
- ISBN
- 978-1-56098-688-1
- Publisher
- Washington : Published for the University of Iowa Museum of Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1996.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1996
Artistic representations of the Midwest's prairies and plains are cloaked in metaphor in this sweeping survey of middle American landscapes from early settlement to the present day. Kinsey (art history, Univ. of Iowa; Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West, Smithsonian, 1992) delves deeply into the aesthetics of absence and emptiness while trac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
