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The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
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- ISBN-13
- 9781734035148
- Type
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781734035148
- Book Title
- Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
- Publisher
- Song Cave, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Art, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, Diaries & Journals, General
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
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In the early years of the twentieth century, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) began painting mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe, and Grant Wood, can be seen to have built the foundations of a particularly American sensibility that the critic Dave Hickey said "continues to evoke an unrepentant, gnostic vision of this vast, rolling, abandoned continent-America without Europe-America without Americans-a massive, alluring kingdom …" For most of his life, Burchfield also kept a journal. Over 54 years, he filled nearly 10,000 pages. To call this journal epic would be understatement. A masterpiece whose bulk has remained unread, it is a handwritten tome that combines elements of the American nature journal with a dash of nineteenth-century spiritual autobiography. It is the record of a man who spent much of his life looking at and considering the sky. In this comparatively small selection pulled from the original 72 volumes, we have Burchfield writing about sitting in the grass with his wife to nap and watch the sunset. He writes about the elation he feels at seeing the first flowers in the spring. He writes about the rain, wind, and the sun. There's the resentment of having a job; the depression that sneaks in as he gets older; sometimes, too, he writes about the state of human progress; and occasionally, thoughts about God. Featuring an introduction by scholar Nancy Weekly, The Sphinx and the Milky Way is a tender record of a life devoted to the essences of earthly beauty.
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Publisher
Song Cave, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1734035145
ISBN-13
9781734035148
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4059008693
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Diaries & Journals, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
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Offers a refined and insightful selection of Burchfield's journal entries, which together offer a vivid snapshot into this influential artist's creative and personal world., I've always found Burchfield's glimmering landscapes mysterious, but his diaries offer an important insight: He painted through a prism that amplified nature's quiet energies., Those who have enjoyed such works as Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book or Kafka's Diaries will find another helping of time- and culture-collapsing manna in The Sphinx and the Milky Way.
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