Escape to reality
Subtitle: the western world of Maynard Dixon
By: by Linda Jones Gibbs ; with an essay by Deborah Brown Rasiel.
Contributors: Rasiel, Deborah Brown, 1960-; Brigham Young University. Museum of Art.
Publisher: Brigham Young University
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Provo, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946 -- Exhibitions.; Indians of North America -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.; West (U.S.) -- In art -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.; Pictorial works; In art
Description: In these visual, historical, and analytical historical essays of an all-too-frequently overlooked artist, Gibbs begins with an account of the Dixon collection at Brigham Young University, then explores the reality, ideology, and abstraction at work in Maynard Dixon's images of Native Americans and the western landscape. In the final essay, photo historian Deborah Brown Rasiel grapples with the complex artistic influences at play between Dixon and his second wife, photographer Dorothea Lange.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Issued in conjunction with the November 2000 opening of the exhibition Escape to reality: the western world of Maynard Dixon, held in the Marian Adelaide Morris Cannon Gallery, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah."