Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1991
Abstract
In the concluding pages of this nearly fourhundred- page volume the author acknowledges previous attempts to write the history of the arts in South Dakota and concludes, quite properly, that "the large task lies ahead." One wonders how much larger the task might be in the light of the present work, which covers the performing arts, the visual arts, and the literary arts, with a special section devoted to the arts of the Sioux. It appears in a review of the 132 chapters, many of them dealing with single individuals and organizations, that a conscious effort was made to leave nothing out of consideration. The result is what has been called a "telephone book" of names and dates in chronological order. All of this information is, of course, valuable and indispensable to scholars, and even to the curious, who wish to explore the field in the future. The groundwork has been well and truly laid.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.