One Foot on the Rockies (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series) - Softcover

Jensen, Joan M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826315399 ISBN 13: 9780826315397

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1995

Synopsis

This stimulating book examines the experience of women artists in the American West. The women studied here range from Joseppa Dick, Pomo basketmaker, to Georgia O'Keeffe; from dancer Isadora Duncan to African-American writer Ntozake Shange and dozens of other women who lived in a fertile crescent that Jensen calls the Pacific Southwest during the last century.

By recovering the work of so many writers, painters, photographers, and craftswomen, Jensen expands the history of women in the West. She also explores the cultural climate necessary to support creative work and considers questions of tradition and memory, examining the forms available to writers such as Buffalo Bird Woman, Christine Quintasket, Ruth Benedict, Sui Sin Far, and Agnes Smedley. Finally she engages the theories of history and creativity that determine what society chooses to remember and preserve.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A Volume in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture

From the Back Cover:

A highly readable exploration of the factors that enhanced and restricted the success of women artists in the West during the 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0826315399
• ISBN 13: 9780826315397
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188