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Best Material for the Artist in the World

Best Material for the Artist in the World

Chamlee, Kenneth

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Art HistoryArtistsGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1622889487
ISBN13: 9781622889488
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Published: Mar 20 2023
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

This poetic biography tracks the life and career of landscape artist Albert Bierstadt, whose 19th-century representations of the American west earned him wealth and international acclaim. Relaying the story primarily through Bierstadt's voice, this imaginative collection also includes perspectives from the painter's family, friends, critics and patrons as it chronicles his youth in New Bedford, Massachusetts, his apprenticeship in Europe, his meteoric fame following western expeditions, and the emotional turbulence of diminished reputation due to changing cultural tastes. These narrative, lyric, and ekphrastic poems touch the momentum of the developing west, the devastation of native tribes and the great buffalo herds, as well as the resiliency of Bierstadt's art in times of environmental awareness and expansionist reappraisal. Neither defense nor homage, The Best Material for the Artist in the World offers a balanced appreciation of an influential artist-explorer who gave us iconic, sometimes mythic views of our defining wilderness landscapes.

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