An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin Amer…
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Weitere Autoren: Andrews, Chris (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1980-8
- EAN: 9780811219808
- Produktnummer: 34246569
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 905 KB
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Nominated for a Neustadt award and the Man Booker International Prize, César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. He has published at least one hundred books and recently created a limited edition, Valise,” for the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
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