James B. Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape

by Henry M. Sayre

This book on the contemporary painter and printmaker James B. Thompson is a meditation on the possibility of discovering, in an American landscape wracked by the devastation of global warming, flood, drought, and environmental disaster, an uncanny beauty, even a source of affirmation and hope. Thompson's entirely abstract canvases and prints offer themselves up as metaphors for landscape, as terrains full of incident designed to reveal not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930957610
• ISBN13: 9781930957619
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 10.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher