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Six writers on art and popular culture survey the terrain of western art in the twenty-first century

it is hard to imagine that Remington thought his original painting fell short of the mark and burned it along with more than one hundred other important works of art

The West as America: Reinterpreting images of the frontier, 1820-1920 Stationery " which clearly touches onAs American settlers pushed ever westward from 1820 to 1920, artists fleshed out the theme of inevitable expansion. This attractively illustrated study a tie in with a touring exhibition brilliantly reassesses Western and frontier art, demonstrating how such painters as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Thomas Moran, George Caleb Bingham and Frederic Remington drew a veil over unsavory aspects of frontier life. Instead, the text argues, the artists