- Hardcover: 180 pages
- Publisher: The Greenwich Workshop Press (Dec 7 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0867130601
- ISBN-13: 978-0867130607
- Product Dimensions: 31.4 x 27.6 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,693,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Terpning creates award-winning images that are powerful yet intimate glimpses into the Plains Indians' "glory days."
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Howard Terpning, often referred to as the Storyteller of the Native American People, has concentrated his award-filled career on painting pictures about some of the Great Plains tribes: Blackfeet, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Commanche and Apache. Terpning is intimately familiar with the details of their lives, from facial bone structure to everyday dress, from ceremonies to the rhythms of community life. Terpning's paintings cover the Plains Indian's "glory days" of the early nineteenth century up to their final, desperate demise: the extinction of the buffalo and the displacement and disease of the tribes as a result of the westward expansion of the white man.
His paintings not only tell a story, they pull the viewer into the emotional life of the individuals portrayed. There are moments of peace, humor, pride, hard-won wisdom, young defiance and fear. The viewer feels the cold, the hunger and the desperate poverty of hunters when the great buffalo herds are extinct.
"I want to show them as people who were not always at battle but a people who raised children, made love, cooked meals, hunted buffalo. Theirs was a life on the move," says Terpning, "always looking for fresh grass, for buffalo. Today we tend to romanticize it, but in reality it was a hard life. The thing that makes it appealing, however, is that it was such a free existence."
Terpning is most proud of praise from Native Americans today. At a recent art exhibition a Cheyenne woman stopped him to say " I just want to touch you because you are the only one who perceives our people as we perceive ourselves."
In Spirit of the Plains People, western historian Don Hedgpeth interweaves the fascinating history of the tribes, the conflicts between them, the dwindling of the resources they depended on and the spiritual interconnectedness of every aspect of their individual and community lives.
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Spirit of the Plains People, Jan 3 2007
By Greg Dejanovic - Published on Amazon.com
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This book has his earlier work as well as some newer paintings. I was hopping to get a book with only work that was not published before. Bummer. Reproduction of the paintings are not the best."The art of Howard Terpning" has much better reproductions of his work.This book repeats a lot of work from the other book.Greg
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Very contented, Dec 1 2010
By Serena Cle, OH - Published on Amazon.com
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The book looks like new, I'm very pleased of it, and arrived very fast. Very contented of the purchase I've made.
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The book is spotless, July 18 2009
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This book arrived absolutely spotless and protected in a plastic cover(but it did have to be aired out for a few days because of a strong cigarette smell). It arrived so fast I couldn't believe it. I ordered it on a Tuesday evening and I received it on Friday. I would definitely do business with this seller again.
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