Review of Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky

Authors

• Margaret A. Mackichan, Sinte Gleska College

Date of this Version

1988

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly WINTER 1988. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Prairie is the unlikely yet rather successful marriage of what a prairie looks like to a scientist and feels like to an artist. The sixtytwo photographs, nine of which are black and white, are . square in format and superbly printed in Japan. The imagery is divided among scientific illustrations of native grasses, insects, or mammals; expanses of sky and cloud or expanses of earth seen aerially; and landscapes. In spite of the diversity of intent and viewpoint, a sense of continuity and flow is achieved.