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Laddar... Wolf Kahn's America: An Artist's Travelsav Wolf Kahn
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. In addition being a very creative artists, Wolf Kahn is also a very good writer. The book features short descriptions of his travels to various locations in the USA along with reproductions of the oils or pastels that he created from the trip. The stories are enjoyable tonread and often offer insights into what inspires him to create his artwork. As a "fan" of his artwork, I enjoyed this book very much. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Wolf Kahn, whose lyrical and beautiful landscapes are among America's best-loved contemporary paintings, has traveled the world in pursuit of his art. In this charming book, he describes his travels across the United States, illustrating his adventures with the works he created on his journeys. In a series of short essays, each only a few paragraphs in length, Kahn recalls the places in America where he has traveled to work as well as the problems those diverse locations presented to him as an artist, and how he solved them. In one section, he writes of the difficulty of capturing the dark tones and rough textures of the sea, with the special light effects that signal a given time of day. In another he writes of the gradations of color and value density in a bramble thicket in the Maine woods. Other short essays are simply personal memories, charming and anecdotal reminiscences of life on the road. This is delightful and refreshing look at the world of a painter, seen through the candid and unpretentious eyes of one of America's most popular artists, is accompanied by 100 of Kahn's superbly reproduced oil paintings and pastels. John Updike's introduction, a tribute to an admired fr Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Kahn might not always discuss the work illustrated in any detail, yet it nonetheless speaks for itself: its economy and simplicity, its vibrancy and feeling of light. While the text accompanies the illustrations the setting is light and spacious so that in no way competes with the pictures.
It all adds up to a very appealing and informative book, one that can just as easily be read at length as picked up for just a couple of minutes at a time. It above all gives us an insight to the artist, and one which perhaps makes us envious of the relative freedom and opportunity his work affords him. ( )