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Art of Acadia

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.08.2023

Abbildungen

325 Color Illustrations

Verlag

Rowman & Littlefield

Seitenzahl

280

Maße (L/B/H)

21,5/28,1/1,7 cm

Gewicht

1125 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-68475-101-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.08.2023

Abbildungen

325 Color Illustrations

Verlag

Rowman & Littlefield

Seitenzahl

280

Maße (L/B/H)

21,5/28,1/1,7 cm

Gewicht

1125 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-68475-101-3

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Art of Acadia

  • Table of Contents

    Foreword
    Art of Acadia: A Centennial Celebration
    Purpose of book: to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Acadia National Park through the artists who have found their muse in the greater Mount Desert Island region.
    2-4 images

    Introduction
    Arriving at Acadia
    Short personal essay about how the authors came to Acadia
    6-8 images

    Pre(r)amble
    Acadia: The Lay of the Island
    Description of the area: location in Maine, physical features, allure, with maps, aerial views, silhouettes, stereoscope views
    8-12 images

    Part 1: 17th-19th Century

    1. Earliest depictions and first artists
    Native Americans, DeBry engraving (1627), English Pilot silhouette (1760), F. Graeter hand-colored lithographs (1836), etc. Paintings by Thomas Doughty, Alvin Fisher
    16-18 images

    1. Hudson River School
    Frederic Church (1826-1900) at MDI (1850- 1865), with his contemporaries and later 19th-century artists: Thomas Cole, Fitz Henry Lane, William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford R. Gifford, Jervis McEntee, et al.
    25 images

    1. Late 19th-Century Illustration and Art
    Guidebooks, adventure stories, engravings, drawings, photographs, paintings, stereoscopic views, etc.
    25 images

    Part 2: 20th Century
    1. Acadia National Park
    Carriage trails, bridges, gardens, scenic views (includes the Champlain Society, artist-in-residence program, etc.)
    25 images

    1. Carroll Sargent Tyson
    Impressionist painter
    10-12 images

    1. 20th-Century Artists
    John Singer Sargent, Dwight Blaney, Childe Hassam, Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Maurice Freedman, et al., plus 2-4 pages on cartographers
    40 images

    1. Figures of Island Literature
    Excerpts of poetry and prose, with short bios of 10-15 authors
    5 images

    1. TIPS—The Three Islesford Painters
    H. B. Warren, C. Scott White, and C. E. Kinkead
    20 images

    1. Artists of Great Cranberry Island
    Postwar generation: Heliker, LaHotan, Kienbusch, Campbell, Nelson, et al.
    20 images

    Part 3: Acadia Contemporary 1970-2015
    1. Artists of Acadia
    Full range of interpretations of the island
    90-120 images
    Afterword

    Portrait Gallery

    Selected bibliography

    Acknowledgements

    Index