THE COVER Golub, Robert M
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association,
09/2010, Letnik:
304, Številka:
11
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Golub discusses Rockwell Kent's painting, Monhegan. Kent turned his eye to Monhegan's placid western shore, depicting a view of the Village from Horn's Hill, south of the lighthouse. Given how early ...the last ferry returns from Monhegan to the mainland, it depicts something unlikely to have been seen by a day traveler--a Monhegan summer sunset. The composition is somewhat unusual. The sun is setting past the left end of the frame, indicated by the direction of the long shadows and the stark highlighting of the minuscule figures on the pathways. The focus of the painting is on the sky and on the buildings of the village that are rendered with his draftsman precision. The horizon nearly bisects the painting, with a relatively dark foreground of village and meadow, Manana and a tiny triangle of harbor at the left, and a lighter sky with ribbons of cloud and a strong hint of the off-screen sun.
Rockwell Kent is famous for the near three hundred illustrations he made for two simultaneously released 1930 editions of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851). But Kent's illustrations, ...while widely praised, also mark a complex intervention that was explicitly designed to critique Melville's own visuality. Kent spent five years researching and designing his project, during which he discovered many of the nineteenth-century textual and visual sources that had influenced Melville, or that Melville had outright appropriated. These include the illustrated whaling chronicles of William Scoresby, Thomas Beale, Frederick Bennett, and John Ross Browne. Kent's highly stylized illustrations remediate these chronicles and their attendant imagery through three approaches: by directly copying illustrations that Melville used as sources; by hybridizing Melville's visuality with its actual antecedents; and by pre-empting the "pictures" that Ishmael-the only surviving crewmember and narrator of the book-hopes to "paint," thus complicating, if not abrogating, the narrator's will to ekphrasis. In other words, Kent's images complete a tripartite, verbal-visual signal jamming that could magnify, reverse, collapse, or ironize Melville's own visuality. Moreover, because Kent identified Melville's source imagery decades before anyone else, and then critiqued Melville's visuality based on these hard-earned discoveries, his illustrations constitute a historiographic origin point for the literary discipline now called "Melville and the Visual Arts." The Kent Moby-Dick, as well as its many foreign translations, is a novel replete with much more than images: it is a novel saturated with an ongoing, albeit wholly visual, dialogue about Melville's own visual program. It therefore represents a unique category of production, where illustration becomes literary criticism, or, one could say, illuminated critique.
First published in 1941, A Northern Christmas is Rockwell Kent's uplifting account of the 1918 Christmas he spent with his 9-year old son in a one-room, moss-caulked log cabin on a remote Alaskan ...Island. Published here in its original format, with Kent's striking illustrations, this charming keepsake edition is sure to delight a new generation of readers.
In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, ...printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent called an adventure of the spirit. He soon discovers how deeply he is stirred by simple happenings in a quiet world as man and boy face both the mundane and the magnificent: satisfaction in simple chores like woodchopping or baking; the appalling gloom of long and lonely winter nights; hours of silence while each works at his drawings; crystalline moonlight glancing off a frozen lake; killer whales cavorting in their bay. Richly illustrated by Kent's drawings, the journal vividly re-creates that sense of great height and space -- both external and internal -- at the same time that it celebrates a wilderness now nearly lost to us.
First published in 1941, A Northern Christmas is Rockwell Kent's uplifting account of the 1918 Christmas he spent with his 9-year old son in a one-room, moss-caulked log cabin on a remote Alaskan ...Island. Published here in its original format, with Kent's striking illustrations, this charming keepsake edition is sure to delight a new generation of readers.
Arts Foundation -- The formation of the Chagrin Foundation for Arts & Culture is to be announced from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, 40 River St., Chagrin Falls. Includes details ...on its inaugural projects: the restoration of Township Hall, the renovation of the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre and a partnership with the Chautauqua Institution for summer programming. Call 440- 247-8422 (press 3 at prompt). Impressionism for Children -- Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, collaborates with the Massillon Public Library to present three free Impressionism for Children workshops sponsored by the Rotary Club of Massillon. Registration is limited to the first 15 children who apply. The workshops, inspired by the museum's current show, Midwest Visions of Impressionism, begin with a story read by a library staff member in the gallery. Then the children are led through an artistic exercise inspired by the reading. Workshops are from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 21 and Aug. 18. Students may register for any or all of the sessions, with parents encouraged to join them. 330-833-4061 or www.massillonmuseum.org. Brown-bag program -- Christine Fowler Shearer will speak on the Massillon Museum's show, Midwestern Visions of Impressionism, from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the museum lobby, 121 Lincoln Way E., Massillon. 330-833-4061.
The artist Rockwell Kent and the composer Carl Ruggles first met in the Beaux Arts public library in Winona MN. Christensen traces their relationship and considers the consequences that a chance ...meeting in Winona would have on each man's life and professional development.
Sunday Pick Horton, Marc
Edmonton journal,
09/2005
Newspaper Article
Neither would it be the kind of place where Rockwell Kent could find the unattainable things that he sought -- he did have the qualities of a feckless bounder -- but he did forge a relationship with ...famous Newfoundland explorer Bob Bartlett. The two men clash in ways that make their characters, ambitions and egos perfectly clear, and Michael Winter's narrative is strong and compelling.
The flowering of the Industrial Revolution was a main reason New England was such an appealing place to artists and their audiences. The pastoral beauty of the New England landscape offered a ...restorative retreat from the rise of soulless industrialism, with its belching smokestacks and river-fouling effluents. New England's allure also was fueled in part by nostalgia for the Old World work ethic and simple faith of the Puritan founders. There are also urban landscapes. Beatrice Cuming's "Saturday Night New London" is a kinetic street scene of sailors in port, neon and lamplight, women in bright clothing, dance halls, theaters, theater-goers, promenaders, posers, and even pushers, perhaps. The painting, done in 1938, signifies an inexorable shift toward a more complex, less pristine landscape, something that was occurring everywhereIn addition to the Fitchburg Art Museum, members of the Consortium of New England Community Art Museums are: Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Conn.; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Conn.; Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Conn.; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Conn.; Newport Art Museum, Newport, R.I.; Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vt.; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis; Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown; Art Complex Museum, Duxbury; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham; and the Fruitlands Museums of Harvard.
