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Light atlas

Title

Light atlas / Cynthia Daignault.

Publication

New York, NY : Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2019.
©2019

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Description

399 pages : color illustrations; 25 x 30 cm

Summary

In 2014, American painter Cynthia Daignault (born 1978) traveled around the entire outside border of the USA, stopping roughly every 25 miles to paint the view before her. The resulting monumental work, 'Light Atlas', is a grand portrait of America in 360 canvases that reveal slow shifts in hue, atmosphere, depth, industry and economy. This catalog reproduces every painting of 'Light Atlas' at 1:1 scale, in a filmic retelling of her journey and of the country she circled. Daignault weaves a dense narrative, intercutting parallel stories of the journey, the creation of the work and the grander fiction of America itself. New essays were commissioned for the book by celebrated historians and writers Alexander Nemerov and David Campany, approaching the piece both in its relationship to the history of painting and photography. 00Exhibition: Crystal Bridges Museum of American , Bentonville, USA (26.05. - 03.09.2018).

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Genre/Form

Art.

Contents

Afterward / Cynthia Daignault -- In advance of being lost / Alexander Nemerov -- Around Cynthia Daignault's Light atlas / David Campany -- Postcards from America / Cynthia Daignault.

Call Number

JQF 20-802

ISBN

9781941366189
194136618X

LCCN

2018028440
40029535016

OCLC

1041228461

Title

Light atlas / Cynthia Daignault.

Publisher

New York, NY : Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2019.

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Daignault, Cynthia, artist.

Nemerov, Alexander, contributor.

Campany, David, contributor.

Other Standard Identifier

40029535016

Research Call Number

JQF 20-802

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