Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians: Written During Eight Years' Travel (1832 - 1839) Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America[Volume II]

Catlin, George

Edité par Dover Publications, New York, 1973

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Fine condition color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes List of Illustrated Plates; Appendix A: Extinction of the Mandans; Appendix B: Brief Vocabularies of Several Different Indian Languages; and Appendix C. Illustrated with 257 photographs of Catlin's original oil paintings, 55 of the original book illustrations, black-and-white map frontispiece, and inner front and rear cover full-color paintings. "Crow, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Sioux, Comanche, Mandan, Choctaw, Cheyenne, Winnebago, Creek, Assiniboin; wild prairies teeming with buffalo; the sacred site of Catlinite stone - all were subjects of Catlin's letters and paintings. For eight years (1832-1839) George Catlin ventured among the Indians of the North American Plains capturing in verbal and visual pictures every facet of their lives. For the rest of his life, Catlin carried to Eastern America and Europe the true pictures of the North American Indians enjoying their last years of freedom and dignity in their native home. Catlin's book is an adventure. It is an adventure of the painter who was called "the great white medicine man" for his ability to paint. It is an adventure of a self-taught painter who vowed: " . nothing short of the loss of my life, shall prevent me visiting their country, and of becoming their historian." It is a story of the great mysteries of the many tribes of Indians he visited - the mysteries of costume, posture and myth, the mystery of weapons, hunts and manly games, the mystery of a life still close in connection with the Great Spirit, with the buffalo and with the traditions of thousands of years, all which would soon be destroyed. "Art may mourn," said Catlin, "when these people are swept from the earth." Most importantly, his book is a book of direct, fresh and accurate illustrations, illustrations that keep the best in Indian life alive. Now for the first time Catlin's illustrations are shown as he meant them to be seen. Through a process unknown when his book was first published, photographs of his actual paintings have been used to capture the many layers of depth and accurate depiction that could only be hinted at in the line drawings of the early editions. Two-hundred and fifty-seven photographs of Catlin's original oil paintings are included together with fifty-five of the original book illustrations. As a result this is the definitive edition of Catlin that can never be superseded, far more useful than any earlier edition. " - excerpt from the rear outer cover. FROM THE COPYRIGHT PAGE: "This Dover edition, first published in 1973, is an unabridged republication of the work first published in London in 1844. This edition contains an introduction by Marjorie Halpin, which was first published in 1965 by The Smithsonian Institution in Catlin's Indian Gallery - The George Catlin Paintings in the United States National Museum, and is reprinted by special permission of the Smithsonian Institution. Two hundred fifty-seven of the drawings have been replace by photographs of the original paintings.".

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• Titre: Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians: Written During Eight Years' Travel (1832 - 1839) Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America[Volume II]
• Éditeur: Dover Publications, New York
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Illustrateur: Gillon, Jr., Edmund V. (cover design)
• État de l'article: Fine