Sudden and Solitary: Mount Shasta and Its Artistic Legacy 1841-2008 - Softcover

William C. Miesse; With Robyn G. Peterson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597140880 ISBN 13: 9781597140881

Publisher: Heyday Books, 2008

Synopsis

Generations of artistic tribute to California s mythic giant Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California. Joaquin Miller Beauty and majesty have drawn people to the slopes of Mount Shasta for centuries. Long revered as sacred by the Native American tribes in its region, it remains important to various spiritual communities. Modern-day Native American rituals take place there, and elements of other religious practices such as a Buddhist monastery have also clustered around the mountain. Artists too have flocked to Mount Shasta. Writers and painters alike have sought to capture the wonderment we feel at the sight of the lone mountain towering at the head of a long valley. Sudden and Solitary presents over 150 years of artwork, ranging from the artists who accompanied Wilkes, Fremont, and other early explorers to Albert Bierstadt and William Keith to the many visionary artists, past and present, big and small, who have been inspired by Mount Shasta. This book is, as the authors state in the introduction, an attempt to characterize what Mount Shasta meant to the nineteenth-century American and Californian, and how those ideas have evolved in the visual arts up to the present. There are many mountains in the West, but few offer the experience that Shasta does of being in a place apart and unique; it is no surprise that it has generated an artistic legacy of such grandeur. The artwork in this book will be shown at an exhibition at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park in summer and fall 2008.

About this title

About the Author:

An art and rare book dealer, art publisher, and lecturer, William C. Miesse is the author of Mount Shasta: An Annotated Bibliography and The Mount Shasta Fact Sheet. He has been living at the base of Mount Shasta since 1981 and specializes in the scholarly exploration of California history, including John Muir, Joaquin Miller, Mount Shasta s art legacy, Mount Shasta legends, and early California cartography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1597140880
• ISBN 13: 9781597140881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256