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John James Audubon: The Making of an American (vuoden 2006 painos)

Tekijä: Richard Rhodes

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity. Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds-pelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies-and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as "the American Woodsman." He publishes his major work as well as five volumes of bird biographies enhanced by his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life. Audubon's story is an artist's story but also a moving love story. In his day, communications by letter across the ocean were so slow and uncertain that John James and his wife, Lucy, almost lost each other in the three years when the Atlantic separated them-until he crossed the Atlantic and half the American continent to claim her. Their letters during this time are intimate, moving, and painful, and they attest to an enduring love. We examine Audubon's legacy of inspired observation-the sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itself-precisely, truthfully, lyrically captured. And we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, feted by presidents and royalty. Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is. And here he emerges for the first time in his full humanity-handsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. Richard Rhodes has given us an indispensable portrait of a true American icon.… (lisätietoja)
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Teoksen nimi:John James Audubon: The Making of an American
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"Wherever there are birds there is Audubon: rara avis."

I very much enjoyed this biography of John James Audubon. Richard Rhodes quotes at length from Audubon's journal and many letters, so I came away with a much better idea of who Audubon was and how he saw the world, especially his beloved birds.

"The Birds of America" is Audubon's most famous and important work, and his efforts collecting specimens, preparing drawings, and marketing the book provided an excellent framework for tying the whole biography together. "The Birds of America" is so important that it really seems like it would be best to read this biography with a copy of "The Birds of America" within easy reach to get the full effect. While the book included two sections of beautiful color plates prepared for "The Birds of America," including some of his most iconic drawings, it also made reference to others that were not shown. And they really couldn't have been; "The Birds of America" contains around 400 plates. At any rate, this book made me want my own copy of "The Birds of America," whereas before I hadn't given it much thought.

Audubon seemed particularly prescient about the fate of America's wilderness, and some of the species he drew (among them the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, and possibly the ivory-billed woodpecker) are now extinct. Audubon was an amazing artist, and in addition to enjoying his work we can take important lessons for the future from it. ( )
  Jennifer708 | Mar 21, 2020 |
Rhodes has penned an engaging and inspiring biography of the astonishing life of John James Audubon, naturalist, artist and author of Birds of America, the enormous and staggeringly gorgeous book of which first editions today sell at auction for upwards of $10 million. Audubon's passionate and single-minded obsession with painting North American birds, frequently forsaking financial stability, relationships with family and friends, and even hygiene in pursuit of his life's work, is reminiscent of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy. The book reads like an absorbing adventure, but there are a number of sobering passages, among them Audubon coming to the (accurate, as it turns out) realization that the wild state of nature he was presently observing in the United States would be greatly diminished within a century. And like Meriwether Lewis, who famously lamented on his birthday as having contributed very little to human knowledge (this, while in the midst of the Lewis & Clark Expedition), Audubon rather heartbreakingly frets that he hasn't really accomplished much of anything, despite having produced hundreds of magnificent paintings. Lucy Audubon, whom Audubon abandoned for years at a time chasing publication of his paintings, was truly a saint. ( )
  ryner | Aug 20, 2019 |
I really knew little about Audubon other than his artwork. Rhodes does a great job of revealing the man, his long-suffereing wife, and America of the early 19th Century. ( )
  dasam | Jun 21, 2018 |
A very detailed (maybe a little TOO detailed) look at the life of John Audubon. The first thing that struck me is the fact he would kill hundreds of birds in his quest to draw them. He'd wire the birds up in a "natural" pose to get all the details of the subject--yet Audubon was known for bird conservation. Audubon was a prolific letter and journal writer, thus large volumes of information exist surrounding his life. The other fascinating piece is the mode of travel in the early 1800's and how long and dangerous it was to search out birds. Forty three days to cross the Atlantic. Walking 120 miles- no problem! Audubon was enamored with all wildlife, but was also a man on a mission to paint/draw all the birds of America. To finance his trips and pay for "The Birds of America" pictorial essay book, he had to be a salesman too. Yet he was not arrogant or pushy, just VERY passionate about his lifework.Very interesting look at the man and the America of the 1800's. ( )
  camplakejewel | Sep 18, 2017 |
John James Audubon, born illegitimately in Haiti as Jean Rabin, he grew up in France as Jean-Jacques Audubon, returning to America to escape the Napoleonic Wars. Quite successful as an entrepreneur and merchant in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, he was ruined by the panic of 1819. He turned his hobby of painting into his profession, painting portraits for cash and birds for pleasure. Traveling across the United States in search of money and birds, he amassed the basis for his opus magnum: The Birds of America. This project of creating life-sized color illustrations of American birds needed rich financial backers which only bird-mad Britain could supply in numbers. Thus, Audubon shuttled between the Old and the New World in search of subscribers and birds. Only sixty complete sets of Audubon's elephant folio version of The Birds of America exist, making them instantly extremely valuable. Audubon lived in an age prior to merchandising and Kickstarter, thus, despite achieving quite respectable turnover figures, he could never cash in on his work.

The paperback version of the book is beautiful with many high-quality color illustrations and numerous b/w ones throughout the text. Sometimes, Rhodes as a non-specialist misses obvious connections and parallels, e.g. Audubon and Albert Gallatin were both originally French-speaking European immigrants to Pennsylvania with key interests in classification. This is, however, only a quibble about a splendid and highly recommended biography. ( )
  jcbrunner | Feb 29, 2012 |
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity. Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds-pelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies-and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as "the American Woodsman." He publishes his major work as well as five volumes of bird biographies enhanced by his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life. Audubon's story is an artist's story but also a moving love story. In his day, communications by letter across the ocean were so slow and uncertain that John James and his wife, Lucy, almost lost each other in the three years when the Atlantic separated them-until he crossed the Atlantic and half the American continent to claim her. Their letters during this time are intimate, moving, and painful, and they attest to an enduring love. We examine Audubon's legacy of inspired observation-the sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itself-precisely, truthfully, lyrically captured. And we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, feted by presidents and royalty. Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is. And here he emerges for the first time in his full humanity-handsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. Richard Rhodes has given us an indispensable portrait of a true American icon.

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