Frederic Remington: Artist of the American West [Library Binding]

Nancy Plain (Author)

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Library Binding: 160 pages
Publisher: Enslow Publishers (January 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0766019756
ISBN-13: 978-0766019751
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 440 g

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From School Library Journal

Grade 5-8-While chronicling the life and work of the artist, Plain shows how his sketches and bronzes captured the action and danger of the Wild West and frontier life. Black-and-white reproductions introduce readers to Remington's art. Period photographs provide a glimpse into life and the fashions of the 1880s, and sidebars treat such topics as "The Evolution of Engraving" and "The Bronzing Process." Readers will appreciate Remington's sense of adventure and persistence in his pursuit of the "real cowboy." This book is for more advanced readers than Ernestine Giesecke's Frederic Remington (Heinemann Library, 1999).
Kathleen A. Nester, Downingtown High Ninth Grade Center,
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Reviewed with Pat McCarthy's Henry David Thoreau.

Gr. 6-8. Each of these serviceable studies in the Historical American Biographies series imparts a relatively detailed overview of its subject's life, works, distinctive outlook, and character. Of the two, Thoreau makes drier reading, as McCarthy is given to name-dropping and extraneous details. He does, however, include a discussion of Thoreau's enduring influence, along with brief passages that capture the flavor of his writing, and refreshingly frank descriptions of him by contemporaries. Like Thoreau, Remington is presented as a maverick with a yen to wander, who died young and at the height of his creative powers. But unlike Thoreau, he was an outgoing, robust sort, who achieved almost immediate fame as soon as he turned to art full-time. Both books are sturdily supported by endnotes, plus lists of print and Web resources, but their black-and-white illustrations of old photos and prints are poor in quality, and Remington mentions many works that are not illustrated at all. Despite the weak visuals, both biographies do a good job of illuminating key figures in our cultural history. John Peters
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