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Charles Burchfield's journals : the poetry of place /
The personal journals of Charles Burchfield reveal the unique vision and approach to life that established him as America's preeminent watercolorist and painter of nature. When he died in 1967 at the age of seventy-three, Burchfield had filled seventy-two bound notebooks with his personal entri...
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / F.C. Richardson
- Preface / C. Arthur Burchfield
- Editor's Introduction / J. Benjamin Townsend
- I. Proem: The Journals
- II. The Outer World. Small Town and Rural Countryside: Salem. Industrial City: Buffalo. Suburban Retreat: Gardenville
- III. The Inner World. Self-Reliance and Sacred Privacy. Crisis. Dreams and Fantasies. Love. Nostalgia
- IV. Nature as Phenomenon: Burchfield, the Naturalist
- V. Nature as Manifestation: Burchfield, the Poet and Visionary. Nature as Self: The Romantic View. Nature as Other: The Transcendental View
- VI. Professional Life. Art Education and Apprenticeship. Artistic Development. The "Art World"
- VII. Credo. Art and the Artist. Music. Literature and Films. Politics, War, Science, and Progress. Religion and Philosophy. Life, Aging, Death.