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Synopsis
Deluxe Edition: slipcased, with a specially designed binding, limited to 250 copies. Included with each copy is an original monochromatic lithograph especially commisioned for this limited edition and signed and numbered by the artist.
"I paint in the midst of the landscape (often half frozen and beaten by the wind) knowing that eyes are not enough. I wish for total immersion: touch, smell, sound, and the awareness always of the swift flight of the sun. In short, to paint is to participate, to extend one's senses, to work in sympathy with an utterly mysterious cosmos. . . . There is a line from the Spanish poet Jorge Guillén: 'The landscape imagines me.'"--from the Preface
For many this book will alter how they see Kansas. Robert Sudlow approaches painting as a sort of communion, one that draws the viewer into his meditation upon the reality of nature. His paintings celebrate and exalt the Kansas landscape by making the commonplace luminous, by transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Sudlow once observed that his canvases get tangled in roadside ditches, weeds, and brambles. The fifty-four oil paintings that are painstakingly reproduced in full color in this oversized book confirm this affinity for the raw and untrimmed in the landscapes of eastern Kansas and the Flint Hills. Temperamental skies and disheveled fields fire Sudlow's imagination, as do the muted tonalities and ascetic sparseness of fall and winter scenes.
No photo-realist, Sudlow seeks to capture on canvas the transience of natural events like scuddling clouds, blustery winds, melting snow, and waning light. He paints fields, ditches, ponds, dirt roads, hedgerows, streams, hills, and farmhouses. One senses Sudlow's joy in his struggle to fuse the disparate forces of nature and to communicate his sense of the place. A native Kansan, Sudlow has refined that sense through a lifetime of closely observing his environment, and those who share his vision will likely see Kansas afresh.
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From the Back Cover
"An honest and deeply satisfying evocation of the Kansas landscape. Sudlow has, in fact, elevated the very way in which we see landscape."--Donald Hoffman, art and architecture critic, Kansas City Star
About the Author
Robert Sudlow, who has an M.A. in art from the California College of Arts and Science, taught art at the University of Kansas for forty years until his retirement in June of 1987. His work has been the subject of major museum exhibitions and has been avidly collected for years.
Lynn Bretz is a freelance writer and the former arts editor of the Lawrence Journal-World.
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- PublisherUniv Pr of Kansas
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0700603468
- ISBN 13 9780700603466
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages96
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