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Karl Bodmer's North American Prints

Karl Bodmer's North American Prints

Bodmer, Karl
Ruud, Brandon K.
Joyner, J. Brooks

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 0803213263
ISBN13: 9780803213265
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Mar 1 2004
Pages: 383
Weight: 6.76
Height: 1.65 Width: 12.22 Depth: 12.10
Language: English
In 1832-34 German scientist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied traveled the interior regions of North America to document what he regarded as vanishing cultures. Accompanying him was the twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-93), whom Maximilian employed to create a faithful and vivid image of America and its people.

Upon their return to Europe, Maximilian began the difficult task of turning his field notes and journals into a readable account of his journey, while Bodmer concentrated on the equally complicated process of translating his drawings and watercolors into engravings to accompany the text. During the nearly ten-year effort it took to create Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-34, many of the eighty-one images underwent significant changes: Bodmer and his team of some thirty engravers altered landscapes and portraits based on Maximilian's input, modified imprecise inscriptions, and reengraved plates for future printings.

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