At Home on the Great Plains of Texas: The Paintings of Laura Lewis
With a laugh, Laura Lewis says of her art, &;I am uncomfortable painting mountains, because they get in the way of the view.&; The challenge for this High Plains realist is to create strong compositions out of the extreme horizontals that predominate her chosen artistic geography. As the works in this book will attest, Lewis excels in capturing the views discovered in her ramblings across the length and breadth of the region she has dubbed the &;Great Plains of Texas.&; Her paintings are a celebration of the land and the people that capture the distilled essence of a place that has formed her vision and her understanding of what it means to be at home. Opening with a foreword by longtime columnist and Texas observer Joe Holley, At Home on the Great Plains of Texas offers images of paintings that Lewis intends as &;a glass of cool water for anyone thirsting for the beauty to be found here.&; The paintings are interspersed with vignettes by Christina Mulkey, a writer whom Lewis invited to accompany her on many of her &;image safaris.&; Collectors, scholars, and historians have long known about and frequently commented on the centrality of place in Texas art. With the paintings in At Home on the Great Plains of Texas, Laura Lynn Lewis takes her place among the ranks of those who teach us the art of transformative perception; we learn how to &;attend,&; in Mulkey&;s words. In seeing the arid, broad vistas of Lewis&;s home country, we better understand how to appreciate our own landscapes of belonging.
yazar | Laura Lynn Lewis |
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Tarafından yayınlandı | 15 Kasım 2020 |
12 Ekim 2016 Kolektif Insight Editions 21 x 0,5 x 29,6 cm J B SBoon 14,8 x 0,5 x 21 cm 21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm 23 Temmuz 2017 28 Şubat 2018 Collectif 25 Şubat 2018 12 Eylül 2017 21 x 0,5 x 29,7 cm edition cumulus 14,8 x 0,7 x 21 cm 22 Mayıs 2016 21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm Emily Grace
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Sürüm ayrıntıları
yazar | Laura Lynn Lewis Christina Mulkey Joe Holley |
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isbn 10 | 1623498902 |
isbn 13 | 978-1623498900 |
Yayımcı | TEXAS A & M UNIV PR |
Tarafından yayınlandı At Home on the Great Plains of Texas: The Paintings of Laura Lewis | 15 Kasım 2020 |
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