Art of the Osage by Garrick Bailey, Daniel C. Swan - 2004

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press / Saint Louis Art Museum, 2004 University of Washington Press / Saint Louis Art Museum, Seattle, WA. 2004. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Very Good +; light bumping to top edge of DJ; light rubbing to panels. Red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Beechwood pictorial endpapers. 221 pp 4to. This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the art of the Osage people, explores the interconnections among their material culture, social organization, cosmology, aesthetics, and rituals. This volume draws together more than two centuries worth of Osage art, tracing patters of Osage life and culture as they existed from contact to the present. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.