Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop

Lebanon, NH: University of New Hampshire / University Press of New England, 2003. Hardcover. VG (Few marks from previous gallery owner.). Three-quarters tan boards with tan cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, sage & color illus. dust jacket, 282 pp., 10 color plates, 36 BW illus. Analyzes the New England landscape as presented by "five modern American visual artists and poets -- Winslow Homer, Robert Frost, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Elizabeth Bishop -- who portrayed the stark traditional beauty of New England landscape. ... What does a landscape represent? What meaning can it have when nature's power apepars supplanted by urban or technological forces and when the observing eye is no longer emblematic or an enlightened viewer?" (dj) Food for thought. (Inventory #: 142600)