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Blackfoot War Art: Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000.(Brief article)(Book review)
Blackfoot War Art: Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000 by L. James Dempsey. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 488 pp., 32 colour & 128 black & white illustrations, hard cover, $45.00.
This book has all the beauty of a coffee table book but is full interesting and informative information about Blackfoot warriors, and how their exploits graphically became works of art. In many cases, a man's war-record appears both in pictographic and written form. There are several accounts that relate to the Blood and Peigan victory at Lethbridge in 1870, of fights with Kootenay Indians who came across the mountains to hunt buffalo, and an explanation of the pictograph battle scene at Writing on Stone. Several dozen warriors tell of their horse raids, foxhole battles, victories and defeats. One man raided the Sioux and was captured by the great Sitting ...
- Blackfoot war art; pictographs of the reservation period, 1880-2000.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
9780806138046 Blackfoot war art; pictographs of the reservation period, 1880-2000. Dempsey, L. James. U. of Oklahoma Pr. 2007 461 pages $45.00 Hardcover E99 Dempsey (native studies, U...
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- Art or memorial?; the forgotten history of Canada's war art.(book)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2006 700+ words
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- War art; murals and graffiti--military life, power and subversion.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2007 700+ words
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- East Timor war art on display at Australian War Memorial.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 2, 2000 700+ words
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- John Treloar, official war art and the Australian War Memorial *.
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Conde, Anne-Marie September 1, 2007 700+ words
...Treloar's point of view but those who have studied official war art schemes have not always seen things through Treloar's eyes...administrative effort involved in the official and commissioned war art has to be recognised as part of the process of cultural production...
- Art at war. (War Art).
- Magazine article from: Art Business News Meyers, Laura May 1, 2003 700+ words
In times of war, art stands at a crossroad between armed conflict and a battlefield at home...horses, whose faces reference the horror and barbarism of war. Anti-War Art The current call to arms has drawn spirited reaction across America...
