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Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt
Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
Advertised as an introduction to the poetry of Walt McDonald, The Waltz He Was Born For is also a celebration - of both the poetry and the man. Author of some twenty volumes and Poet Laureate of Texas, McDonald details a Southwest of dry hills, dark nights, tough working-class characters fiercely determined to retain their essential humanity amid trying circumstances. McDonald's poetry has always reflected his experience of the world as writer, warrior, family man, sage, and spiritual guide, counseling compassion and reconciliation.
Originality And Influence In George Caleb Bingham's Art, Stephen C. Behrendt
Originality And Influence In George Caleb Bingham's Art, Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
The work of "the Missouri artist," George Caleb Bingham (1811-79), offers us a good opportunity for considering the broad subject of originality and influence in the arts. The combination of originality and convention in paintings such as Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, The Jolly Flatboatmen, and The County Election can tell us much about the dynamics of that branch of American art which sought to reconcile the inherited traditions of formal, academic European art with the often strikingly unconventional reality of a New World. Often condescendingly labeled "regional" art because of its frequently eclectic emphasis upon the local and the …
Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …
Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
The appearance of this volume by E. Maurice Bloch, the dean of Bingham studies, is a most significant event. Superseding Bloch's preliminary catalogue of 1967, this impressive new volume constitutes the definitive catalogue of Bingham's paintings. With more than 350 illustrations, including 23 in color, it provides a guide to both Bingham's familiar works and his lesser-known subjects, documenting the artist's development both as portraitist and as recorder of Western American subject matter. An insightful introductory essay of twenty-eight large, double-column pages presents Bingham .as man and artist, exploring the events and influences that shaped his art and effectively locating …
Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
This rich collection of essays is intellectually substantial, culturally significant, and much overdue. One of the least appreciated phenomena of American culture is its remarkable history of self-fashioning. The American continent was settled by European immigrants for a variety of reasons over some four centuries, and each wave of settlers contributed to the burgeoning mythology of the New World its own set of self-fulfilling prophecies. "America" was--and to a significant extent still is--a largely European construct, a cultural matrix whose outlines emerged and evolved often re-actively as individuals and groups found their expectations challenged by the stark realities of the …