James B. Thompson
Henry M. Sayre
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Paperback. A book on the contemporary painter and printmaker James B Thompson. It places Thompson's work in the context of landscape painting as a whole and offers the viewer with an insight into the meaning of the works themselves. Num Pages: 52 pages, 72 illus., 45 in color. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 280 x 9. Weight in Grams: 544.
This book on the contemporary painter and printmaker James B. Thompson is a meditation on the possibility of discovering, in an American landscape wracked by the devastation of global warming, flood, drought, and environmental disaster, an uncanny beauty, even a source of affirmation and hope. Thompson's entirely abstract canvases and prints offer themselves up as metaphors for landscape, as terrains full of incident designed to reveal not only a sense of what we have lost but the creative energy necessary to renew our imaginative capacity to move on. They constitute a new sublime, a vision of something infinite that we ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hallie Ford Museum of Art,US United States
Number of pages
52
Condition
New
Number of Pages
52
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781930957619
SKU
V9781930957619
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99-47
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