Richard Erdoes Bücher
7. Juli 1912 – 17. Juli 2008
Richard Erdoes war ein Künstler, Fotograf, Illustrator und Autor, dessen vielfältige Karriere sich über Kontinente und Genres erstreckte. Sein frühes künstlerisches Schaffen in Europa, geprägt von einem trotzigen Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus durch politische Karikaturen, zwang ihn zur Flucht vor Verfolgung. Nach seiner Ankunft in den Vereinigten Staaten etablierte sich Erdoes als gefeierter kommerzieller Künstler, bekannt für seine detailreichen und fantasievollen Illustrationen in führenden Magazinen. Ein entscheidender Auftrag zur Dokumentation des Lebens der amerikanischen Ureinwohner entfachte eine lebenslange Leidenschaft, die ihn dazu brachte, Geschichtswerke und Sammlungen indigener Erzählungen zu verfassen und sich als starker Fürsprecher für ihre Kultur und Bürgerrechte einzusetzen.
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
- 352 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.
From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology. In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real people and real events; more than a few, however, grew taller and funnier as they made their rounds from wagon train to campfire to rodeo to miners' quarters. But even if it is far from established that Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were able to kill three men with one bullet or subdue ferocious grizzly bears with their fists, they come vividly to life here as beloved characters who have become part of the fabric of the American imagination. With black-and white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
With surprising candor, Archie Fire Lame Deer describes the magic and power of the Native American spirit life. Archie's compelling narrative recaptures his boyhood years under the tutelage of his medicine-man grandfather on a South Dakota farm. We follow him from Catholic school runaway to Army misfit, from bartender to boozer, from Hollywood stuntman to chief rattlesnake catcher of the state of South Dakota. And we exult with him when he comes home to the world of spirit.
Bilingvní vydání výboru mýtů a legend severoamerických indiánů z oblíbené knihy Richarda Erdoese a Alfonsa Ortize, z níž vycházejí sbírky O muži, který šel za sluncem (Argo, 1996) a Duch dvou tváří (Argo, 2012). Mýty a legendy o stvoření a konci světa, o lásce, hrdinech a válkách, o zvířatech a šibalech, vážné, zábavné i lechtivé, pocházejí z nejrůznějších částí celého amerického kontinentu.
Western buffs will appreciate this unique collection of American nostalgia that celebrates the saloon and is jam-packed with fascinating facts, anecdotes, photographs, legends, and quotes.
