A Sense of Place: The Artist And The American Land

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Originally published in 1972 by Friends of the Earth, A Sense of Place is a remarkable look at the American continent during the last four centuries. Award-winning artist Alan Gussow presents a powerful selection of paintings that range from the earliest depiction of The usa by a European (John White’s Indians Fishing, c.1585), to up to date masterpieces such as Reuben Tam’s White Sea.For each and every picture — works by Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Innes, Georgia O’Keeffe, Anne Poor, Albert Bierstadt, Wolf Kahn, and lots of others — the writer provides a number of the artist’s own words that describe the painting and the scene that inspired it, at the side of a brief introduction to the artist and his or her work. An introduction by National Book Award and Pulitzer prize winning poet Richard Wilbur explores the complex relationship between artist and land, at the same time as a new preface by Gussow discusses the history and enduring importance of the book.Island Press/Shearwater Books is proud to bring forth a new edition of this stunning, long out-of-print volume.

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