Louisiana Faces: Images from a Renaissance - Rilegato

Berry, Jason

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0807126217 ISBN 13: 9780807126219

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

A collection of images from Louisiana's artistic renaissance portrays an emerging arts culture, from masked riders at a Cajun Carnical to jazz musicians playing a funeral.

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L'autore:

Philip Gould is a documentary photographer who has made Louisiana his home and favorite subject for more than two decades. Based in Lafayette, he has published numerous pictorial books on the state, including The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town, Louisiana's Capitols: The Power and the Beauty, and Cajun Music and Zydeco. His photographs grace Emeril Lagasse's cookbook Every Day's a Party: Louisiana Recipes for Celebrating with Family and Friends.

New Orleans writer Jason Berry has published four previous books, including the award-winning Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children and Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II. The recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in journalism, he has produced television documentaries and has lectured on many campuses.

Product Description:

Since the late 1970s, Louisiana -- a state long known for outrageous politicians -- has witnessed a blossoming of the arts and their enthusiastic reception by a national, and even world-wide, audience. From John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to James Lee Burke's detective Dave Robicheaux; from singers Fats Domino and Aaron Neville to jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis and his music-making family; from George Rodrigue's blue dog to Chef Paul Prudhomme's transcendent cooking -- the list is long for Louisiana talent.Louisiana Faces documents in images and words the human texture of this remarkable renaissance, not only the painters, sculptors, chefs, musicians, poets, and writers who create the art, but also the ordinary people who in their daily and seasonal rhythms inform that art. Some are living legends, others well-kept secrets; all have a place, and a face, at the feast.Philip Gould confirms his own part in the renaissance with the 135 stunning color portraits in Louisiana Faces. Gould's lively, poignant photographs capture a range of personalities in timeless settings that mirror the larger culture -- whether masked riders in a Cajun Carnival or jazzmen playing a street funeral. Writer Jason Berry complements Gould's images with a probing, witty essay that explores the parallels between art and life. Using a meld of interviews, anecdotes, history, and commentary, Berry treats outsized political figures and pop culture celebrities as a parade of inspiration for Louisiana artists.In this grand gallery of visages, Philip Gould and Jason Berry provide a generous view on Louisiana's cultural topography, celebrating a hybrid arena in which hoodoo sparks poetry, jazz shapes apainter's style, and "political influence" means the reincarnation of Huey Long in fiction and on stage.

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• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0807126217
• ISBN 13: 9780807126219
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 135