Ledger Narratives ~ Calloway

Description

From the western research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

Ledger Narratives 

Edited by Colin G. Calloway

University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Condition; good, soft cover has another soft cover dust jacket

The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh’s diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains peoples created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century.

In addition to showcasing the Lansburgh collection, Ledger Narratives augments the growing literature on this art form by providing seven new essays that suggest some of the many stories the drawings contain and that look at them from innovative perspectives.

The Lansburgh collection includes some of the most arresting examples of Plains Indian art, and the essays in this volume help us see and hear the multiple narratives these drawings relate. This volume presents in full color the Lansburgh collection at Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in its entirety.