Edwin Dickinson : Dreams and Realities

by Dreishpoon, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9781555952143
• ISBN10: 1555952143
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr

Summary

This work surveys Edwin Dickinson's life and career, both of which revolved around Cape Cod, Buffalo, and New York's Finger Lakes region. It covers the artist's influential career as a teacher, and analyzes Dickinson's self-portraits and major symbolic paintings.

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 6
Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
Acknowledgments	p. 15
Striking Memory	p. 19
Allegories of Pathos and Perspective in the Symbolical Paintings and Self-Portraits of Edwin Dickinson: An Interpretive Essay	p. 51
"Seeing Everything for the First Time": The Teaching and Aesthetic Philosophy of Edwin Dickinson	p. 77
The Teaching of Edwin Dickinson: An Overview and Glossary	p. 86
A Recollection	p. 90
Edwin Dickinson	p. 92
Edwin Dickinson: A Self-Sustained Ego	p. 96
Coaxing a Palpable Mystery: An Appreciation	p. 97
Catalogue of the Exhibition	p. 100
Chronology	p. 209
Selected Bibliography	p. 227
Public Collections	p. 235
Selected One-Artist Exhibitions and Reviews	p. 237
Selected Group Exhibitions	p. 249
Index	p. 279
Photograph Credits	p. 285
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