Big Bend Landscapes
978-1-58544-202-7 Cloth
12 x 9.5 x 0 in
160 pp. 50 color paintings., 20 b&w drawings.
Pub Date: 09/05/2002
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Through his work, Blagg brings the viewer both the beauty and the hostility of West Texas. Blagg has a fascination with and love for his "ever-changing" subject. "The desert represents a landscape of broken promise,” Blagg explains, “yet it is a place of vast spiritual content . . . an emptiness waiting to be filled . . . the Big Bend offers many faces to be painted."
For A Desert Journal, Blagg has chosen fifty of his most powerful color paintings and twenty black-and-white drawings and has written brief comments for each, offering insight into both the art and the land it captures. Ron Tyler of the Texas State Historical Association has contributed an introductory essay on the Big Bend.
Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series
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Published by Texas A&M University Press