An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

by César Aira

Book Overview

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216306
• ISBN13: 9780811216302
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.1"