Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work / Edition 1

by Wendell Berry

Overview

By examining the life and work of celebrated painter, Harlan Hubbard, author Wendell Berry creates the perfect vehicle for emphasizing the themes of his other writings: the value of self-sufficiency, our responsibility to the environment, the holiness of everyday life, and the preference of simplicity over modern, mechanized life. Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813109428
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	06/27/1997
Series:	Blazer Lectures , #1989
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wendell Berry is a poet, a novelist, a farmer, and a conservationist. His books include The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Jayber Crow, Two More Stories of the Port William Membership, Life Is a Miracle: An Essay against Modern Superstition, and Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
A New Life
Much in Little
A More Direct Revelation
Painting Heaven
Anna
Harlan Alone
Some Recollections
An Afterword
Notes

Editorial Reviews

"The book is beautifully illustrated. It includes several sketches and black and white photographs of the Hubbards. Color reproductions of Harlan's paintings show the rich beauty and refinement of his art. Berry's attention to detail celebrates the life and work of this very unique man."

Northern Kentucky Heritage

"A perfect vehicle for Wendell Berry's own celebrated themes of individualism, self-sufficiency, and environmental responsibility as well as a valuable account of a productive and noted Kentucky artist."

Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"Hubbard influenced Berry in the 1960s when Berry's world view was taking shape, and now Berry has returned with his full powers to validate something which helped him then to find his way."

Journal of Appalachian Studies

"Quietly but forcefully explores how machines encumber life and how simplicity enhances it."

Atlanta Journal Constitution

"Berry's many admirers may take special pleasure in this attractive, well illustrated book to commemorate a most unusual life that holds fast to strong principles.... We delight in the courage it took to maintain a lost way of life in our 20th century."

Nashville Banner

"An engaging essay.... Explores the difficulties, complexities and richness of Hubbard's life."

Lexington Herald-Leader

"Berry's story of the Hubbards is both reassuring and challenging.... [They] enlarged Thoreau's experience into a life."

Washington Post Noah Adams

"Environmentalists, rural sociologists, and cultural researchers should examine this book and take it to heart. This work provokes reflection on the creation of social and cultural meaning and continuity."

Journal of American Folklore - John B. Wolford

""The book is beautifully illustrated. It includes several sketches and black and white photographs of the Hubbards. Color reproductions of Harlan's paintings show the rich beauty and refinement of his art. Berry's attention to detail celebrates the life and work of this very unique man."" -- Northern Kentucky Heritage

""A perfect vehicle for Wendell Berry's own celebrated themes of individualism, self-sufficiency, and environmental responsibility as well as a valuable account of a productive and noted Kentucky artist."" -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

""An engaging essay.... Explores the difficulties, complexities and richness of Hubbard's life."" -- Lexington Herald-Leader

""Berry's many admirers may take special pleasure in this attractive, well illustrated book to commemorate a most unusual life that holds fast to strong principles.... We delight in the courage it took to maintain a lost way of life in our 20th century."" -- Nashville Banner

""Berry's story of the Hubbards is both reassuring and challenging.... [They] enlarged Thoreau's experience into a life."" -- Noah Adams, Washington Post

""Environmentalists, rural sociologists, and cultural researchers should examine this book and take it to heart. This work provokes reflection on the creation of social and cultural meaning and continuity."" -- John B. Wolford, Journal of American Folklore

""Hubbard influenced Berry in the 1960s when Berry's world view was taking shape, and now Berry has returned with his full powers to validate something which helped him then to find his way."" -- Journal of Appalachian Studies

""Quietly but forcefully explores how machines encumber life and how simplicity enhances it."" -- Atlanta Journal Constitution

From the Publisher

Lectures by distinguished writer, environmentalist and sustainable agriculturalist Berry (English, U. of Kentucky) on the life and work of Harlan Hubbard (d. Jan. 16, 1988), an earlier Kentucky original--writer, painter, and advocate (and prototype) of rural self-sufficiency. Beautifully illustrated with drawings, photographs, and 20 color reproductions of Hubbard's paintings. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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