Description: WILDERNESS : A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN ALASKA; Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Author: Kent, Rockwell Title: WILDERNESS : A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN ALASKA; Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Publication: New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1936 Edition: Fourth Edition Description: Hardcover. Quarto, 11.25 in. x 8 in, pp. xvii, [1], 217. Lavishly illustrated with woodcuts by the author. Dark blue textured cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Light rubbing to edges. Faded dime-sized stain to spine; fraying to top/bottom of spine. Corners just showing. Illustrated endpapers. Light age-toning to pages. Lovely account of a year spent on Fox Island, with his son, painting, exploring, learning about the flora and fauna. Good Plus. From The Marginalian:"In the last days of August, in the last months of the world's first global war, while the Spanish Flu pandemic was savaging civilization, Kent arrived on a small island in Resurrection Bay off the coast of Alaska, searching for the ultimate. He was thirty-six, dispirited and destitute, as passionate about his art and as pained by the world's indifference to it as Walt Whitman had been when he self-published Leaves of Grass at that same age, from that same precarious place, intimate with the same depths of depression, buoyed by the same reverence for life. Drawing on that experience, Kent would later formulate the closest thing to a personal credo: '"Often I think that however much I draw or paint, or however well, I am not an artist as art is generally understood. The abstract is meaningless to me save as a fragment of the whole, which is life itself... It is the ultimate which concerns me, and all physical, all material things are but an expression of it... We are part and parcel of the big plan of things. We are simply instruments recording in different measure our particular portion of the infinite. And what we absorb of it makes for character, and what we give forth, for expression.'" Seller ID: 87698 Subject: Art Aardvark Rare Books Eugene, OR We work hard to make your Bookbuying Experience safe, easy and fun. Aardvark Books is a proud member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America) and IOBA, Independent Online Booksellers Association. Ezra is also an accredited and Qualified Appraiser of Books and Manuscripts, with a designation from the ASA (American Society of Appraisers), with considerable Archive experience as well. Shipping All books shipped to US destinations are sent via the US Postal Service. Faster shipping is available, please ask before paying. We will combine shipping on items purchased at the same time in order to help reduce costs. International shipping is also available. Please inquire for a shipping quote before ordering.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Author: Kent, Rockwell
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc
Year Printed: 1936
Binding: Cloth
Language: English
