Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Name: Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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ISBN: 9780811216302

ISBN-10: 0811216306

ISBN-13: 9780811216302

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cesar Aira, Chris Andrews, Roberto Bolano

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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 America. However this is not a biography of…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 5/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.10" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English