Painting the woods : nature, memory, and metaphor /

When first-time author and artist Deborah Paris stepped into Lennox Woods, an old-growth southern hardwood forest in the piney woods of northeast Texas, she felt a disruption that was both spatial and temporal. Walking the remnants of an old wagon trail past ancient stands of pine, white oak, elm, h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Paris, Deborah (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Paris, Deborah > Themes, motives. Landscape painting > Texas > 21st century > Themes, motives. Forestry in art. Nature in art. Memory in art. Metaphor in art. Lennox Woods Preserve (Tex.) > In art.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Into the Woods
Pure Seeing
My Own Country
Metaphors in a Paint Box
Memory Incarnate
Drawing Sets You Free
Motif Hunting
Edge of the Woods
The Trail
The Forest
Moonlight
Nature Distilled
Epilogue: Pentimenti.