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Rara avis.(Book Review)
Richard Rhodes John James Audubon: The Malting of an American. Knopf, 516 pages, $30
reviewed by Michael J. Lewis
The threads of John James Audubon's achievement--scientific, commercial, and artistic--are coiled so tightly that they can scarcely be separated. Nor should they be, for once disentangled, Audubon's talents unravel into nothingness. The scientist was a precocious amateur with a knack for field work--no more; the businessman was a bungler, the perpetual victim of his own negligence; and even the artist was at best a fluent draftsman, who wisely learned to work within his fairly narrow limits. But once Audubon brought these three diffident ...
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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON The Making of an American BY RICHARD...published her landmark biography of John James Audubon, a few dusky seaside sparrows were...rain, but as Rhodes makes clear in John James Audubon: The Making of an American, this...
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John James Audubon Richard Rhodes Alfred A. Knopf 1745...the first major biography of artist John James Audubon to appear in forty years--and...Audubon's artistic creations, John James Audubon: The Making Of An American is an...
Source: HighBeam Research, Rara avis.(Book Review)