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Lädt ... A place of refuge : Maynard Dixon's Arizona (2008. Auflage)von Thomas Brent Smith, Donald J. Hagerty, Maynard Dixon
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"The California-born Dixon (1875-1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to experience what he believed was a vanishing West. Amid the mesas, canyons, and desertlands of the region he found visual inspiration and a spiritual solace that would shape both his painting and his life. His response to Arizona's natural and cultural landscapes would fuel the evolution of a powerful personal style; the place would ultimately become both an aesthetic and personal refuge." "Thomas Brent Smith explores Dixon's departure from traditional depictions of human conflict in the "Old West" model, as rendered by artists such as his predecessors Frederic Remington and others, in favor of a new body of tranquil and idealistic western images. Donald J. Hagerty presents a biographical essay tracing Dixon's travels amid the lands and people of Arizona and exploring their impact on his art. The two essays are followed by a "Chronological Folio" of Dixon's Arizona works from the early drawings of Native American subjects and scenes made in 1900 to the gentle and eloquent landscapes of his final years."--Jacket. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Thomas Brent Smith, curator of the American West at the Tuscan Museum of Art, in his essay Evading Conflict, takes a critical look at Dixon's work and how he departed from the then traditional depiction of the Old West. He draws interesting parallels and opposites with regard to Frederic Remington. While Remington portrayed both the indigenous and the immigrant population of the West with distain and reproach, Dixon's depictions were sympathetic, his renderings bestowing the Native Americans dignity, the oppressed with power. It is a thoughtful, perceptive and accessible account. Both essays are illustrated with period photographs and the artist's work.
Following the essays is a chronological presentation of Maynard Dixon's work, including the paintings, sketches and a few examples of his graphic work. In total there are over 160 illustrations, all reproduced in colour including the monochrome drawings and photographs. Most of the work is reproduced to a good size, with many full-page and a few double-page spreads, and a few detail images. At least one painting is shown almost actual size; that along with the detail images give a clear picture of Dixon's brush work.
The book provides a detailed list of works and a selected bibliography but does not include an index.
It is a very attractive book, a good size and almost square in format, and while there is inevitably some duplication of pictures with the other readily available Maynard Dixon monograph: Escape to Reality, The Western World of Maynard Dixon by Linda Jones Gibbs, there is also much that is "new"; A Place of Refuge contains well over 130 illustrations of the artists works while Escapes to Reality has about 100. ( )