Bronze inside and out : a biographical memoir of Bob Scriver /

"More than any other book that I can think of, Bronze Inside and Out puts a human face on Western art - indeed, all art. It invites us to ponder the very nature of the creative process."--The foreword by Brian W. Dippie, University of Victoria Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strachan Scriver, Mary, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, ©2007.
Colección:Legacies shared book series ; no. 25.
Temas:
Scriver, Bob, > 1914-1999.
Scriver, Bob, > 1914-1999
Scriver, Bob.
Sculptors > Montana > Biography.
Sculpteurs > Montana > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Sculptors
Montana
Alberta author.
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Bibliographic Information
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE: Prelude
  • I GENRE: AMERICAN BRONZES
  • 1. Why we learned to cast bronze and what it was like
  • 2. How I got to the Blackfeet Reservation and what it was like Browning, Montana, 1961
  • 3. History of the Blackfeet and how artists joined them High northern prairie, 1600s forward
  • 4. “Indian Daysâ€? Browning, Montana, in the Sixties
  • 5. The roots of American equestrian bronzes Washington, D.C., 1780s to the 1800s
  • II PROVENANCE: FAMILY HISTORY 1. The importance of story: the quick-draw guy Browning, 1968
  • 2. Bobâ€?s genealogical roots and how his parents got to Browning The Palatine to England to Quebec to Montana, 1600s to early 1900s
  • 3. Bobâ€?s childhood Browning, World War I and after
  • 4. The white community and how Bob acquired an Indian “motherâ€? Milk River Ridge, the Twenties
  • 5. Artists on the scene Glacier Park, the Twenties
  • 6. Earl Heikka, “crazy artist fellerâ€? Great Falls, Twenties and Thirties
  • III INSPIRATION: FROM MUSIC TO SCULPTURE
  • 1. First career: leading prize-winning high school bands 1934â€?19502. Second career: successful taxidermist Browning, 1950â€?1964
  • 3. The Scriver Museum of Montana Wildlife Browning, 1953â€?1999
  • 4. The earliest sculptures and the C.M. Russell Contest Browning, the Fifties
  • 5. Beginning to sell Browning, late Fifties
  • IV PLASTILENE: THE EARLY YEARS
  • 1. About the material and what it demands Greenwich Village, the Forties
  • 2. Malvina Hoffmanâ€?s plastilene Greenwich Village, the Forties
  • 3. Plastilene sculptures shelved Browning, 1962
  • 4. The miniature wildlife dioramas: a team effort Browning, Spring 19625. Bob nearly goes blind Browning, Summer 1962
  • 6. Evelyn Cole Chinook, Montana, 1967
  • 7. My first hunting trips The Rocky Mountain front, Fall 1962
  • V ARMATURE: FORMING STRUCTURE
  • 1. About armatures
  • 2. The armature of Bobâ€?s inner world Browning, the Sixties
  • 3. The Buffalo Roundup. We both ride Moiese, 1963
  • 4. Organic armatures: skeletons Bynum, Sun River, Moiese, Starr School, mid-Sixties
  • 5. Broken ribcage Browning, 1965
  • VI WASTE MOLD: SHARDS ON THE TABLE
  • 1. Waste molds, made for destruction 2. Dick Flood The northern prairie, Fifties and Sixties
  • 3. Ace Powell Hungry Horse and Browning, 1928 to 1976
  • 4. John Clarke East Glacier, 1881â€?1970
  • 5. The last full-mount: a moose Browning, 1968
  • 6. Eegie Browning, 1962â€?1975
  • 7. Electric cowboys Cut Bank Creek, 1965
  • 8. Life in Browning The Sixties
  • 9. Drifters Browning, mid-Sixties
  • 10. Downhill Hudsonâ€?s Bay Divide, late Sixties
  • VII PLASTER ORIGINAL: FIRST SUCCESS
  • 1. About plaster originals: the key
  • 2. George Gray Browning, 1968

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