{"product_id":"marsden-hartley-john-locke-and-enlightenment-9780801485800","title":"Marsden Hartley: John Locke and Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Townsend Ludington\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Artists, Architects, Photographers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A penetrating biography.... Ludington offers a psychological portrait of an intense, contradictory, scornful, but gentle man who transcended his nineteenth-century roots in Lewiston, Maine, to view Europe as his home and to make a distinctive contribution to modernism.\"--Kirkus Reviews\"Drawing on Hartley's letters and other writings as well as on the correspondence and reminiscences of the artist's friends, Ludington traces the restless career of the painter.... [Hartley] had troubled friendships with some of the most important artists and writers of his day--Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Fairfield Porter, Eugene O'Neill, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others. His relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, who supported him financially and exhibited his work, ... runs like a leitmotif through the book, and indicates Hartley's character--demanding, touchy, often ungrateful but also compelling.... This frank and unsentimental account of a life of contradictions and paradoxes returns one to the artist's paintings with a fresh eye.\"--Publishers Weekly\"Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) had a virtually unique role as a modernist painter. He was notable not only for his powerful canvases but for his poetry and essays. Townsend Ludington's astute portrait of the artist focuses upon his cosmopolitan sensibility in a generation melding modern art with an American tradition of mystical idealism.... Ludington views Hartley as an essential American artist embarked on a spiritual odyssey.\"--Robert Taylor, Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591349911703,"sku":"9780801485800","price":6163.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801485800.webp?v=1774972607","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/marsden-hartley-john-locke-and-enlightenment-9780801485800","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}