The Four Seasons of Mary Azarian - Hardcover

Hart, Lilias Macbean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567921205 ISBN 13: 9781567921205

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2001

Synopsis

This volume gives the reader a glimpse of life and work in the rigorous reaches of North Vermont, through the woodcuts and accompanying text contained within. The book is arranged according to the seasons celebrated in the artwork.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Azarian grew up on a small farm in Virginia, where she had horses, rabbits and chickens. After graduating from Smith College, where she studied printmaking with Leonard Baskin, she moved to a farm in northern Vermont. There she taught for four years in one of the last one-room schoolhouses in the state. She has been a full-time printmaker since 1969. Her books include A Farmer’s Alphabet and the Caldecott Medal-winning Snowflake Bentley.

Reviews

Mary Azarian, recipient of the 1999 Caldecott Medal for the artwork in Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, works in wood. In her quiet Vermont studio, she coaxes form and feeling out of soft pine, bringing to life the beauty of the landscape she sees and imagines around her. This arresting retrospective displays 50 gorgeous, often full-page reproductions of her hand-colored woodcuts and an equal number of prints in black and white. Lilias Hart, another Vermonter, contributes the brief accompanying text, a mix of the lyrical and the concrete that stands up well to the sturdy, roughly textured pictures. Azarian's work is, perhaps, most appealing when it reflects the homey details of daily life through the year: a cornucopia of summer vegetables, children sledding down a hill, laundry flapping in the breeze. In a final chapter, decorated with more functional woodcuts, Hart introduces a bit of printmaking history and explains the process that links Azarian to artists who used block prints to decorate fabrics more than 1,500 years ago. Stephanie Zvirin
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Edition details

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567921205
• ISBN 13: 9781567921205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Azarian Mary
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112