Download or read book The Sphinx and the Milky Way Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield written by Ben Estes and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Grant Wood, can be seen to have built the foundations of a particularly North American sensibility that critic Dave Hickey said "continues to evoke an unrepentant, gnostic vision of this vast, rolling, abandoned continent--America without Europe--America without Americans--a massive, alluring kingdom." For nearly his entire life, Burchfield also kept a journal. Over 54 years, he filled nearly 10,000 pages. To call this journal epic would be an understatement. A masterpiece whose bulk has remained unread, it is a handwritten tome that combines elements of the American nature journal with a dash of 19th-century spiritual autobiography. It is a record of a man who spent much of his life looking at and considering the sky. In this comparatively small selection pulled from the original 62 volumes, we find Burchfield writing about sitting in the grass with his wife to nap and watch the sunset. He writes about the elation he feels at seeing the first flowers in the spring. He writes about the rain, wind and sun. There's the resentment of having a job; the depression that sneaks in as he gets older; sometimes, too, he writes about the state of human progress; and occasionally, thoughts about God. It is the tender record of a life devoted to the essences of earthly beauty. Best known for his romantic, often fantastic depictions of nature, watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) developed a unique style of watercolor painting that reflected distinctly American subjects and his profound respect for nature.
Download or read book Charles Burchfield s Seasons written by Guy Davenport and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Burchfeild, one of the finest American watercolorists of the 20th century- and perhaps our greatest visionary - used watercolors with weight, power and flexibility to achieve a variety of effects unprecedented in scale and technique for the medium. Working out of the 19th-century Romantic tradition in which nature's primordial energy is revealed throught the drama of human emotions, Burchfield makes the commonplace extraordinary, the everyday miraculous.
Download or read book Charles Burchfield written by Charles Ephraim 1893-1967 Burchfield and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Charles Burchfield written by Charles Burchfield and published by DC Moore Gallery, New York. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was an innovative visionary of American modernism, a watercolor painter who infused his landscapes of upstate New York and Ohio and scenes of small town industrialization with pulsing line and crackling, fluid color. He was also an accomplished writer who kept extensive journals and published several important essays during his lifetime. Burchfield's early watercolors were often strongly expressionistic, projecting a buoyant spirituality; he reached a critical juncture around 1920, when he turned to modernist pictorial strategies to express a severe geometry of houses, factories and barren trees, with skies traversed by stylized smoke. After moving to Buffalo in 1921, he became a founder of the Regionalist movement, but he returned to the dynamic expressionism of his youth in the 1940s; as he told a friend, "It is not that I am trying to escape real life, but that the realm of fantasy offers the true solution of truly evaluating an experience." Published for DC Moore Gallery's survey exhibition (and coinciding with the Whitney Museum's 2010 retrospective), this volume presents a career-wide selection of watercolors and drawings, many of which are drawn from private collections, and have never or very rarely been exhibited. The images are complemented by four autobiographical essays, spanning the years 1928 to 1965, which provide an intriguing window into the artist's complex personality. All are out of print and difficult to locate, making this catalogue an important reference source as well as a visually striking presentation of his work.
Download or read book Charles Burchfield s Journals written by Charles Burchfield and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: pages) by J. Benjamin Townsend. What a great event--the edited and annotated journals of Burchfield Brilliantly edited (from 72 bound notebooks comprising some 10,000 (1893-1967), the preeminent American watercolorist and painter of nature, complemented by 41 color plates and 131 bandw illustrations. And what a journal--Burchfield's intelligence, sensitivity, spirituality revealed in notes on activities, sketching trips, nature observations, personal encounters, literature and music, artistic growth, and religious conflict. Beginning with the summer before his third year of high school and continuing up to nine months before his death, the journals constitute a huge 20th-century spiritual autobiography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Heat Waves in a Swamp written by Charles Burchfield and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the artist's work focuses on Burchfield's expressive watercolors and includes drawing from his 1917 sketchbook, camouflage designs from his tour in the army, and wallpaper designs from the 1920s.
Download or read book The Art of the Occult written by S. Elizabeth and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences. Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia, but why do we still chase the esoteric? From the beginning of human creativity itself, image-makers have been drawn to these unknown spheres and have created curious artworks that transcend time and place – but what is it that attracts artists to these magical realms? From theosophy and kabbalah, to the zodiac and alchemy; spiritualism and ceremonial magic, to the elements and sacred geometry – The Art of the Occult introduces major occult themes and showcases the artists who have been influenced and led by them. Discover the symbolic and mythical images of the Pre-Raphaelites; the automatic drawing of Hilma af Klint and Madge Gill; Leonora Carrington's surrealist interpretation of myth, alchemy and kabbalah; and much more. Featuring prominent, marginalised and little-known artists, The Art of the Occult crosses mystical spheres in a bid to inspire and delight. Divided into thematic chapters (The Cosmos, Higher Beings, Practitioners), the book acts as an entertaining introduction to the art of mysticism – with essays examining each practice and over 175 artworks to discover. The art of the occult has always existed in the margins but inspired the masses, and this book will spark curiosity in all fans of magic, mysticism and the mysterious.
Download or read book BuckyWorks written by J. Baldwin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckminster Fuller - ein echt amerikanisches Genie - war weithin bekannt als Architekt, Ingenieur, Mathematiker, Autor und Erfinder. In diesem Buch sind Fullers wichtigste Ideen und Erfindungen in Form von Worten und Bildern zusammengetragen. Lassen auch Sie sich inspirieren, über alternative Lebensweisen nachzudenken! (02/98)
Download or read book Heat Waves in a Swamp written by Charles Ephraim Burchfield and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the artist's work focuses on Burchfield's expressive watercolors and includes drawing from his 1917 sketchbook, camouflage designs from his tour in the army, and wallpaper designs from the 1920s.
Download or read book Lydia Sigourney written by Lydia Sigourney and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) was the most widely read and respected pre-Civil War American woman poet in the English-speaking world. In a half-century career, Sigourney produced a wide range of poetry and prose envisaging the United States as a new kind of republic with a unique mission in history, in which women like herself had a central role. This edition contributes to the current recovery of Sigourney and her republican vision from the oblivion into which they were cast by the aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of a male-dominated American “national” literary canon, and the aesthetics of Modernism. In this Broadview edition, a representative selection of poetry and prose from across her career illustrates Sigourney’s national vision and the diversity of forms she used to promote it. In the appendices, letters and documents illustrate her challenges and working methods in what she called her “kitchen in Parnassus.”
Download or read book Flies written by Michael Dickman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone—Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."—James Laughlin Award citation "Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."—The New Yorker "These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."—The Believer Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, Flies presents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman's poems bring us back to the wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire to connect with a power greater than ourselves. What you want to remember of the earth and what you end up remembering are often two different things Michael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His first book of poems, The End of the West, appeared in 2009 and became the best-selling debut in the history of Copper Canyon Press. His poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, and he teaches poetry at Princeton University.
Download or read book The Book of Hours written by Marianne Boruch and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marianne Boruch's patience "allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw" (Poetry magazine).
Download or read book Ruskin and Modernism written by Giovanni Cianci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-12-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent of John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin's voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century.
Download or read book Charles E Burchfield written by Nancy Weekly and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967) is one of America's greatest 20th-century artists. He was the first artist to be given a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1930, and his status continued to rise with work exhibited and collected internationally, earning awards and national acclaim. From his modest upbringing in eastern Ohio to his mature years in western New York, Burchfield produced a prodigious number of works that revere nature as a sublime combination of profound beauty and awe-inspiring, destructive power. Beyond faithful representation, his work was often imbued with symbols for human emotions and sounds, as well as ways to convey odors and the sense of touch. Industrial pollution and environmental destruction deserved his harshest critiques. He even invented new techniques for watercolor painting to elevate its status as a medium equivalent to oil painting. His practice reflected American life, focusing on landscape as metaphor-illustrating its vulnerability, multisensory dynamism, and spiritual symbolism. Through synopses of lifelong recurring themes, this book investigates the artist's evolving and increasingly complex approach to expression.Author Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, presents Burchfield's life and work in thirteen chapters. Each explores a distinct aspect of his paintings, sketches, journal passages, and related commentary that align thematically. Transcending conventional chronology, A Lifetime of Themes reveals the unique and often layered facets of Burchfield's creative vision, exploring recurring motifs and inspirations throughout his career. He stands uniquely apart from other artists of his era with sensory vignettes the viewer seeks to enter, to see, to hear, to feel a shared transformative experience.The 160-page book has color 124 illustrations, Acknowledgments by Executive Director Scott Propeack, an Introduction and texts by Burchfield Scholar Nancy Weekly, quotations from Charles E. Burchfield, and a list of illustrated artworks.
Download or read book Charlotte Bront before Jane Eyre written by Glynnis Fawkes and published by Little, Brown Ink. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers of all ages and revered as a masterwork of literary prowess. But what of the famous writer herself? Originally published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, Jane Eyre was born out of a magnificent, vivid imagination, a deep cultivation of skill, and immense personal hardship and tragedy. Charlotte, like her sisters Emily and Anne, was passionate about her work. She sought to cast an empathetic lens on characters often ignored by popular literature of the time, questioning societal assumptions with a sharp intellect and changing forever the landscape of western literature. With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre presents a stunning examination of a woman who battled against the odds to make her voice heard.
Download or read book Romanesque Architectural Sculpture written by Meyer Schapiro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on 19th and 20th century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. This is a transcribed and edited version of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.
Download or read book The Faber Book of Utopias written by John Carey and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopias come in every conceivable cultural and sexual shade: communist, fascist, anarchist, green, techno-fantastic, all male, all female. John Carey's anthology encompasses many noble schemes, as well as chilling attempts at social control.
