The Art and Thought of John La Farge
The Art and Thought of John La Farge

Author: Katie Kresser

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781409426158

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The Art and Thought of John La Farge offers an unprecedented portrait of one of the most celebrated artists of the Gilded Age and opens a window onto nineteenth-century American culture. The book reveals how the work of John La Farge contributed to a rich philosophical dialogue concerning the trustworthiness of human perception. In his struggle against a 'common truth' of iconic symbols presented by a new mass visual culture, La Farge developed a subversive approach to visual representation that focused attention not on the artwork itself, but on the complex, real encounter of artist, subject and medium from which the artwork came.

John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study
John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study

Author: James L. Yarnall

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781409411727

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John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study is the first biography in a century of the American painter, illustrator, muralist, stained-glass artist, and writer. Examining La Farge's career from his youth to his late rebound as a decorative artist-from New York City and New England to Europe to Japan to the South Seas-this is also the only biography to date composed independently of the artist and his estate.

Vanishing Paradise
Vanishing Paradise

Author: Elizabeth C. Childs

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2013-05-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0520271734

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Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.

John La Farge's Second Paradise
John La Farge's Second Paradise

Author: Elisabeth Hodermarsky

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300141351

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This volume goes well beyond the scope of the typical exhibition catalogue and becomes, in the end, the first great study of La Farge's late South Seas works, and one of the first comprehensive overviews of the activities of Western artists in the South Seas in the late 19th century. The catalogue's (and exhibition's) title refers to La Farge's first great artistic inspiration (1850s-60s) being the area around Paradise Beach in Newport, RI, and his second inspiration (1890s) being a trip to the South Seas. A number of important scholars have contributed essays to this volume. Among them are the longtime La Farge scholar Henry Adams, who contributes an essay titled "John La Farge's South Seas Sketchbooks: Their Nature and Their Significance" (along with an inventory of the South Seas sketchbooks); and Elizabeth Childs, who contributes an essay comparing the activities of Paul Gauguin and John La Farge during their respective sojourns in Tahiti (it turns out that Gauguin arrived in Tahiti only a week or so after La Farge left it for Fiji). This is an attractively produced volume in square quarto format, with 160 color illustrations and many more in black and white. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by M. W. Sullivan.

Behind the Mountains
Behind the Mountains

Author: Oliver La Farge

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0865346763

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Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge died in 1963. Of his many books, this work has earned the affection of Santa Feans and New Mexicans, who continue to regard it as a regional classic.

Henry James and American Painting
Henry James and American Painting

Author: Colm Tóibín

Publisher: Penn State the History of the

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271078526

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Explores how the novels of Henry James reflect the significance of the visual culture of his society, and how essential the language and imagery of the arts, as well as friendships with artists, were to James's writing.

"John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study "

Author: JamesL. Yarnall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1351561553

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John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study is the first biography in a century of the American painter, illustrator, muralist, stained-glass artist, and writer. Examining La Farge's career from his youth to his late rebound as a decorative artist-from New York City and New England to Europe to Japan to the South Seas-this is also the only biography to date composed independently of the artist and his estate. Drawing on primary documentation culled from archives and contemporary newspapers and journals, the biography thoroughly documents La Farge's career and artwork. Earlier biographies avoided the darker aspects of his complex and conflicted life, which had dramatic effects on his work. The study also offers critical analysis of the artist's works, showing influences from other artists and giving contemporary and modern responses. La Farge authority James L. Yarnall scrutinizes how posterity has viewed the artist throughout the century since his death. The book is copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color images.

The Night Ocean
The Night Ocean

Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13:

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"The Night Ocean" is told from the first person narrative and it follows the young painter who arrives in a small village of Ellston where he is supposed to enter a contest with his large mural. At first, he enjoys peace and quiet surroundings, but as he stays longer he start seeing and experiencing some strange things which, along with the loneliness, have strong effect to his psyche.