Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks : William Quesenbury's Overland Sketches, 1850-1851

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011

0806142197 / 9780806142197

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Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851, entrepreneur John Wesley Jones hired artist William Quesenbury to join such a venture. Quesenbury and other artists traveled the overland trails through Nebraska Territory to sketch the ?scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks? they encountered, and Jones used selected material for his ?Pantoscope,? a gigantic, scrolling panoramic painting. Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks gathers 71 of Quesenbury?s sketches from the Jones expedition and a gold rush trip the year before. These works in pencil are illuminated by eyewitness accounts from the period, modern maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes.David Royce Murphy, Michael L. Tate, and Michael Farrell set Quesenbury?s depictions, including Pikes Peak and Courthouse Rock, in historical context. Their insightful essays offer accounts of the artist?s mid-century travels, the worlds of panoramic art and field exploration, and the contemporary conception of natural space. In exploring these topics, the book offers alternate conclusions about the purpose of the sketches. Jones?s moving panorama opened in late 1852 under the title ?Pantoscope of California, Nebraska & Kansas, Salt Lake & the Mormons? and was wildly popular on Boston and New York stages. Today, the Quesenbury sketches are all that remains of Jones?s project. The sketches reproduced here, rare records of that ambitious enterprise as well as the sights en route to California gold, offer evidence of the way mid-nineteenth-century Americans envisioned the West.

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Titel
Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks : William Quesenbury's Overland Sketches, 1850-1851
Autor
Murphy, David Royce; Michael L. Tate & Michael Farrell
Verlag
University of Oklahoma Press
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2011
Zustand
New
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0806142197
ISBN-13
9780806142197

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