Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent Constance Martin HCDJ 2000 Art Book

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Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Artist
Rockwell Kent; Constance Martin; Richard West
ISBN
9780520227118
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520227115
ISBN-13
9780520227118
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1714083

Product Key Features

Book Title
Distant Shores : the Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Author
Constance Martin
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
33.7 Oz
Item Length
11.1 in
Item Width
10.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-026272
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
760/.092
Table Of Content
Lenders to the Exhibition Foreword Acknowledgments ROCKWELL KENT: BEFORE THE ODYSSEY (View part I) ROCKWELL KENT: THE ODYSSEY Monhegan Newfoundland Alaska Tierra del Fuego Moby Dick and Greenland Greenland: The Second and Third Visits Conclusion THE PAINTINGS Maine Newfoundland Alaska Tierra del Fuego Greenland ROCKWELL KENT: AFTER THE ODYSSEY Chronology Exhibition Photographic Credits Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was an artist of extraordinary drive, talent, and versatility; he embraced life with exuberance. And though he was one of the most popular American illustrators of this century--so much so that The New Yorker published the ditty, "That day will mark a precedent, which brings no news of Rockwell Kent"--the controversies engendered by his socialist leanings, particularly during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, frequently overshadowed his artistic achievements. His major art was inspired by his extended stays in remote, sparsely inhabited and climatically harsh regions, most of them islands, to which his imagination was drawn for a mythic association with the mystical and marvelous. Distant Shores captures Kent's great enthusiasm for the sea and mountains, and the relationship between nature and humanity. Produced to accompany a traveling exhibition of the artist's work, this handsome volume features eighty paintings, prints, and drawings, (more than fifty in full color) related to Kent's sojourns in the wilderness--Maine, Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland. Included in this collection are works from The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg that have been unavailable to the public since the early 1960s. Kent's dramatic black-and-white illustrations for Herman Melville's Moby Dick --the engravings that popularized his work in the United States--are also featured. The essays describe Kent's career as a painter, printmaker, book designer, illustrator, and prolific writer. Constance Martin contextualizes the work in the exhibition by providing an informative and insightful background of Kent's life and art. Richard West contributes fascinating details about Kent's childhood and early adult life, his mastery of the print medium, and his involvement with American political thought during the McCarthy period.
LC Classification Number
N6537.K44 M37 2000

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