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Thomas Cole's Refrain - The Paintings of Catskill Creek (Paperback)
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Thomas Cole's Refrain - The Paintings of Catskill Creek (Paperback)
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Thomas Cole, an internationally renowned artist, centered his art
and life in Catskill, New York. From his vantage point near the
village, he cast his eyes on the wonders of the Catskill Mountains
and the swiftly flowing Catskill Creek. These landscapes were
sources of enduring inspiration for him. Over twenty years, Cole
painted one view of the Catskill Mountains at least ten times. Each
work represents the mountains from the perspective of a wide river
bend near Catskill, New York. No other scene commanded this much of
the artist's attention. Cole's Catskill Creek paintings, which
include works central to American nineteenth-century landscape art,
are an integral series. In Thomas Cole's Refrain, H. Daniel Peck
explores the patterns of change and permanence in the artist's
depiction of a scene he knew first-hand. Peck shows how the
paintings express the artist's deep attachment to place and region
while illuminating his expansive imagination. Thomas Cole's Refrain
shows how Cole's Catskill Creek paintings, while reflecting
concepts such as the stages of life, opened a more capacious vision
of experience than his narrative-driven series, such as The Voyage
of Life. Relying on rich visual evidence provided by paintings,
topographic maps, and contemporary photographs, Peck argues that
human experience is conveyed through Cole's embedding into a
stable, recurring landscape key motifs that tell stories of their
own. The motifs include enigmatic human figures, mysterious
architectural forms, and particular trees and plants. Peck finds
significant continuities-personal and conceptual-running throughout
the Catskill Creek paintings, continuities that cast new light on
familiar works and bring significance to ones never before seen by
many viewers.
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