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John James Audubon - The Nature of the American Woodsman (Hardcover)
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John James Audubon - The Nature of the American Woodsman (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Studies
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John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled
achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature
dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the
most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity
scientist. In this fresh approach to Audubon's art and science,
Gregory Nobles shows us that Audubon's greatest creation was
himself. A self-made man incessantly striving to secure his place
in American society, Audubon made himself into a skilled painter, a
successful entrepreneur, and a prolific writer, whose words went
well beyond birds and scientific description. He sought status with
the "gentlemen of science" on both sides of the Atlantic, but he
also embraced the ornithology of ordinary people. In pursuit of
popular acclaim in art and science, Audubon crafted an expressive,
audacious, and decidedly masculine identity as the "American
Woodsman," a larger-than-life symbol of the new nation, a role he
perfected in his quest for transatlantic fame. Audubon didn't just
live his life; he performed it. In exploring that performance,
Nobles pays special attention to Audubon's stories, some of
which-the murky circumstances of his birth, a Kentucky hunting trip
with Daniel Boone, an armed encounter with a runaway slave-Audubon
embellished with evasions and outright lies. Nobles argues that we
cannot take all of Audubon's stories literally, but we must take
them seriously. By doing so, we come to terms with the central
irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and
trouble to depict birds so accurately left us a bold but deceptive
picture of himself.
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