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Wolf Kahn's America : An Artist's Travels by Wolf Kahn (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-100810967960
ISBN-139780810967960
eBay Product ID (ePID)2740369
Product Key Features
Book TitleWolf Kahn's America : an Artist's Travels
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicIndividual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorWolf Kahn
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight42.8 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width10.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-001440
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromEighth Grade
Dewey Decimal759.13
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
SynopsisWolf 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
LC Classification NumberN6537.K229A4 2003
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