The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks
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Edwards Hicks (1780-1849), creator of the Peaceable Kingdom paintings, is among the best-loved American folk artists. Published to accompany a 1999 travelling exhibition in the US, this volume draws... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879352051
ISBN13:9780879352059
Release Date:January 1999
Publisher:Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Length:254 Pages
Weight:3.30 lbs.
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Keen and largely trustworthy insight
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Carolyn Weekley largely earns the reader's trust in this perceptive portrayal of the Quaker culture which produced The Peaceable Kingdoms. True, our understanding of the many controversies at the heart of the Hicksite Schism has progressed since her book was published. For instance, Weekley passes over without comment the subversive, gender-bent iconography portrayed in the myserious "Jonathan and David at the Stone Ezel." In addition, she fails to recognize Edward's place at the edge of the powerful maritime dynasty which was explored by Robert A. Davison in Isaac Hicks, New York Merchant and Quaker, 1767-1820. But otherwise the biography succeeds as a much-needed portrait of the artist in a spiritual context.
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