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At home on the Great Plains of Texas : the paintings of Laura Lewis

Title: At home on the Great Plains of Texas : the paintings of Laura Lewis / Laura Lewis with Christina Mulkey ; foreword by Joe Holley.
Author: Lewis, Laura, 1954-
Publication: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]

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Description

xix, 95 pages, 1 folded plate : color illustrations, color map; 27 cm

Summary

"With a laugh, Laura Lewis says of her art, "I am uncomfortable painting mountains, because they get in the way of the view." The challenge for this High Plains realist is to create strong compositions out of the extreme horizontals that predominate her chosen artistic geography. As the works in this book will attest, Lewis excels in capturing the views discovered in her ramblings across the length and breadth of the region she has dubbed the "Great Plains of Texas." Her paintings are a celebration of the land and the people that capture the distilled essence of a place that has formed her vision and her understanding of what it means to be at home. Opening with a foreword by longtime columnist and Texas observer Joe Holley, At Home on the Great Plains of Texas offers images of paintings that Lewis intends as "a glass of cool water for anyone thirsting for the beauty to be found here." The paintings are interspersed with vignettes by Christina Mulkey, a writer whom Lewis invited to accompany her on many of her "image safaris." Collectors, scholars, and historians have long known about and frequently commented on the centrality of place in Texas art. With the paintings in At Home on the Great Plains of Texas, Laura Lynn Lewis takes her place among the ranks of those who teach us the art of transformative perception; we learn how to "attend," in Mulkey's words. In seeing the arid, broad vistas of Lewis's home country, we better understand how to appreciate our own landscapes of belonging"--

Uniform Title

Paintings. Selections

Alternative Title

Paintings.

Subject

Genre/Form

Art.
Illustrated works.

Contents

Introduction / by Laura Lynn Lewis -- Learning to See / by Christina Mulkey -- South Camp -- Lazbuddie, Texas -- The Dairyman -- Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos -- Sand Fighting -- The Cotton Harvest -- The Oilman -- The Mural Experience -- Life and Death in Midland.

Call Number

JQF 22-231

ISBN

9781623498900
1623498902

LCCN

2020020435

OCLC

1154857932

Author

Lewis, Laura, 1954- artist.

Title

At home on the Great Plains of Texas : the paintings of Laura Lewis / Laura Lewis with Christina Mulkey ; foreword by Joe Holley.

Publisher

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Mulkey, Christina, writer of added commentary.

Holley, Joe, 1946- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-231

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