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An episode in the life of a landscape painter
By Andrews, Chris
- ISBN
- 978-0-81121-630-2
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 5, 2006
Part travelogue, part meditation on art, this brief, increasingly riveting fictionalized history by Argentinean author Aira (How I Became a Nun) reinvents German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas's ill-fated 1837 South American journey. Rugendas, a genre painter influenced by naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, first recorded the "exotic" landscape of the New World in the early 1820s and had early success with the illustr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
