Custer on canvas : representing Indians, memory, and violence in the new west

Custer on canvas : representing Indians, memory, and violence in the new west / Norman K. Denzin.

The 1876 events known as Custer's Last Stand, Battle of Little Big Horn, or Battle of Greasy Grass have been represented over 1000 times in various artistic media, from paintings to sculpture to fast food giveaways. Norman Denzin shows how these representations demonstrate the changing percepti...

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Main Author: Denzin, Norman K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876 > Portraits.
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876 > Drama.
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876 > Anniversaries, etc.
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876
1876
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Pictorial works.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, in art.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Drama.
Indians in art.
Indians in popular culture > Montana > Little Bighorn Battlefield > Pictorial works.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Anniversaries
Indians in art
Indians in popular culture
Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Montana : 1876) in art
Montana
Montana > Little Bighorn Battlefield
Electronic books.
Drama
Pictorial works
Portraits
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Dramatis personae
  • Chapter One: A good day to die: the Battle of Many Names
  • Chapter Two: Whose last stand? The early paintings
  • Chapter Three: Whose Custer?
  • Chapter Four: Killing Custer
  • Section of color plates
  • Chapter Five: Here Fell Custer: an autoethnography of a painting
  • Chapter Six: Custer's Last Rally
  • Chapter Seven: The Last Stand
  • Appendix A: Timeline: The Plains Indian wars (1860-1890) and the Battle of Many Names (1876)
  • Appendix B: Timeline: Paintings of the Battle of Many Names
  • Appendix C: Timeline: William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

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