Description:
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.
Brief description: Kate Elliott is Associate Professor of Art History at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and the recipient of a Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and a United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship.
Review Quotes: "The book is thoughtful and finely produced with all the pictures examined shown within the text. Westerners interested in cultural and artistic themes, even though they may have book containing many of the picture chosen, should welcome this volume for its literary acumen."---English Westerners Society