Dimenticata in Italia da oltre cinquant'anni, Dorothy Johnson scrisse quattro dei migliori racconti western del XX secolo, da tre dei quali furono tratti dei celebri film, con John Wayne e James Stewart - L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance -, con Richard Harris - Un uomo chiamato cavallo - e con Gary Cooper - L'albero degli impiccati.Una raccolta di racconti unica, per rivivere la storia e il folklore di frontiera visto attraverso lo sguardo di una grande donna. Riuniti in questa raccolta, i tre testi diventati poi celebri film - L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance, Un uomo chiamato cavallo e L'albero degli impiccati - destano stupore e ammirazione per la loro originalità. A questi si aggiunge Una sorella scomparsa, altro racconto di analoga ambientazione, a testimoniare l'inconfondibile stile dell'autrice e l'originalità di uno sguardo femminile su un mondo tradizionalmente maschile.  Uomini e donne forti e coraggiosi ma non invincibili, che si riconoscono nei valori del sacrificio, della lealtà e dell'amore: nei suoi racconti Dorothy Johnson ci narra di un paesaggio impervio, di spazi e cieli sconfinati, di un mondo duro e spietato ma profondamente umano.

In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.
Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gérard, Ingres, and Delacroix and sculptors such as Houdon and Pajou, David to Delacroix reveals how these artists offered innovative reinterpretations of myth while incorporating contemporaneous and revolutionary discoveries in the disciplines of anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, and medicine. The interplay among these disciplines, Johnson argues, led to a reexamination by visual artists of the historical and intellectual structures of myth, its social and psychological dimensions, and its construction as a vital means of understanding the self and the individual's role in society. This confluence is studied in depth for the first time here, and each chapter includes rich examples chosen from the vast number of mythological representations of the period. While focused on mythical subjects, French Romantic artists, Johnson argues, were creating increasingly modern modes of interpreting and meditating on culture and the human condition.

During a period of social, political, and cultural upheaval and transformations in France Jacques-Louis David emerged as the artistic leader of his epoch. The current volume, which covers the artist's entire career, provides a further step in the direction of nuanced thinking about David's art and brings to light new evidence concerning the artist, his legacy, and the culture in which he lived and worked.

Jacques-Louis David's brilliant painting of the young lovers Telemachus and Eucharis was created during the artist's last years, when the defeat of Napoleon and the return of the monarchy in France forced him into exile in Brussels. Several of his paintings from this period show his preoccupation with the psychology of love, but none depicts the emotions of parting more tenderly than this painting from 1818.

Dorothy Johnson discusses how David's political involvement affected his personal life and career, taking him from history painter to revolutionary to living in exile. The effects of these experiences came together at the end of his life in the creation of some of his richest and most complex works.

This sequel to Dorothy M. Johnson's prize-winning Buffalo Woman, also available as a Bison Book, continues the story of Grandmother Whirlwind's family of Hunkpapa and Oglala Sioux who flee to Canada with Sitting Bull after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. All the Buffalo Returning is a haunting novel about the fate of the Lakotas who find no surcease in Canada but are driven back onto their dwindling reservation by starvation. They face the enormous problem of surviving in the world of the white conquerors. Stormy, the grandson of Whirlwind, travels with his family to Pine Ridge for Wovoka's Ghost Dance. There, true believers who perform the sacred dance will experience the return of the lost buffalo and pony herds as well as the spirits of the beloved dead.

Presents papers from the July 1989 conference. Topics include deaf cultures around the world, deaf history, sign language in society, diversity in the deaf community, deaf clubs and sports, the deaf child in the family, education, deaf/hearing interaction, deaf people and the arts, and human rights issues. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.