Driftwood (eBook)

The Life of Harlan Hubbard

Jessica K. Whitehead (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
408 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-1-9859-0156-8 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;I need a flood in my soul, to carry off all the old drift and the flimsy habits that have extended down to the water's edge."e;Harlan Hubbard, JournalsWriter, artist, and sustainability pioneer Harlan Hubbard (19001988) lived a quiet, unassuming life, and yet he is thoroughly embedded in Kentucky's historical memory. While some may know of Hubbard's shantyboat sojourn on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers with his wife, Anna, or of Payne Hollow, their hand-built homestead, few know the full story. After four decades of transformation, Hubbard emerged in middle age as the rightful heir to the Transcendentalist ethos, ready to envision a unique existence of simplicity and wild beauty akin to that of the revered Henry David Thoreau.In this comprehensive biography, Jessica K. Whitehead reveals why Hubbard is beloved by his fellow Kentuckians and has been an inspiration to generations of readers interested in art, adventure, and environmentalism. Driftwood delves into Hubbard's family background, education, and relationships, and into his theories on art, writing, music, and philosophy. Using journals, letters, paintings, manuscripts, and sketches, Whitehead pieces together the distinct phases of Hubbard's life, providing new insights into his character and legacy. By examining his perspectives on creativity and responsible living, Whitehead connects the early Hubbard, who grappled with his identity and yearned for travel, with the confident and intentional Hubbard of Payne Hollow.Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard is a complex portrait of a person who deserves a place alongside other iconic American thinkers and artists in the nation's broad cultural history. It offers a vivid depiction of Hubbard, the traces he left behind, and his template for sustainability in our modern ecological landscape.

Autor

Jessica K. Whitehead, writer and curator of collections at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, is coauthor of The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects and a contributor to The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard: From the Collection of Bill and Flo Caddell.

Inhalt

Prologue: I Need A Flood in My Soul
Part I: Revelation - 1900-1919
1. Bright Spirit
2. Flax Beaters, Citadels, and Reformers
3. Bellevue
4. Restlessness
5. Afoot
6. Observing the World
7. Soldiers of the Soil
Part II: The Language of Landscape - 1919-1942
8. The Academy
9. A Blind Alley
10. We Are Still in Eden
11. Quiet Desperation
12. "I am set to light"
13. Land of Nevermore
14. Studio of Nature
15. Forbidden Fruits
16. The American Scene
17. Emergence
18. The Librarian
Part III: Recording a Vanishing World - 1943-1988
19. Rivers to the Sea
20. Vagrants
21. The Pure Delight of Drifting
22. On the Fringe
23. Run Out of River
24. Settlers
25. A Little Seven-Acre World
26. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
27. I Rejoice After My Own Fashion
28. Is This Evolution?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 26 b&w illustrations, 24 color illustrations
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Schlagworte: Artist • Culture • Environmentalist • Henry David Thoreau • Kentucky • landscape art • Off the Grid • ohio river • Payne Hollow • shantyboat • Simplicity • sustainability • watercolor • wendell berry • Writer
• ISBN-10: 1-9859-0156-0 / 1985901560
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9859-0156-8 / 9781985901568