Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East eBook Alexander Kinglake
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Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East eBook Alexander Kinglake
Amazon asked me to review this purchase, however, my review is limited to the purpose for which I bought my second copy of Eothen.I bought the book not to read it, but only for the artwork by Sir Francis "Frank" Brangwyn one of the greatest painters of his era. I am an architect and painter and exhibit my work worldwide and Brangwyn's work inspired me since boyhood. He is what artist's call, "a painters painter." His art is colorful, rapidly painted and with a style that bridged Impressionism and realism and created a style of his own which inspired many painters and illustrators here and abroad. In fact, after many years of being one of America's greatest illustrators, the great Dean Cornwell, "Dean of Illustrators" put aside his multi-million dollar career as illustrator to move overseas to study with Brangwyn and dedicate himself to Mural painting. He only then illustrated when he needed cash, as mural painting did not pay well.
In Eothen, there are twelve full color illustrations. My only regret is that they are reproduced at a very small scale and the reproductions are thus not as clear as I would prefer. Never the less, they are Brangwyn's and any bit of Brangwyn art is a sacred thing for painters/illustrators who specialize in figure painting. I have a large collection of larger, brilliantly colored reproductions of the art of Frank Brangwyn and often have one or more propped up on my easel for inspiration. I rated it only four stars because of the small size and less clear reproductions of the masters work. Brangwyn was the inspiration for several decades of painters and illustrators including Dean Cornwell and at the American Academy of Art the most prized books were anything with prints of Brangwyn in them, especially full color prints. His paintings were recognizable to many students and lovers of art. The brush strokes are lush like smooth splashes of colored butter. He was a wizard at handing the brush, where he appeared to splash the paint on rapidly and yet accurately. The brilliance of color, technique and lavish brush work is a feast for the eyes. Some of the greatly influenced by Brangwyn and therefore away from dry academic photo realism.
Most copies of the works of Frank Brangwyn are out of print, as are many of the books he illustrated, as is this version of Eothen. However, even now 50 years after his death at a ripe old age, artists who specialize in figure painting still seek out his work and every now and then a new publication comes forth with excellent reproductions. If you like Brangwyn's brand of Impressionism, which is closer to Italian, Spanish and Russian Impressionism you can search the net for reproductions of his works.
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Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East eBook Alexander Kinglake Reviews
This is a book to be treasured and I read it several times. It is hard to imagine the world Kinglake describes which is virtually extinct now at a time when lions abounded in Eastern Europe, Caliphs and Pashas smoked their pipes through long tubing and Lady Hester Stanhope gets esoteric.
Full of humour, the book is as British as they come with such sensitive nuances about the subject matter including disease, women, customs and issues of religion in the holy land.
I'm still looking for this brand of hero inside and out but don't think he's that common except as a carricature. Did Kinglake's world and attitude really exist?
Eothen is a kind of quirky travelogue describing Alexander Kinglake's 1834 tour of the Near East; it was originally published in 1844.
Kinglake, like many an English gentleman (and lady) of his era, is full of prejudices and preconceptions about other cultures and races. He takes "the natural ascendancy of Europeans" as a graven truth, and doesn't scruple at making sweeping generalizations about Arabs, Jews, Turks, Greeks, and everyone else he encounters. The book, for this reason, probably reveals more about Kinglake than it does about the places he travelled. His descriptions of the customs and characters he observes are those of "a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant" outsider, and for that reason must be viewed with skepticism - but they are wonderfully entertaining all the same.
Here is an example of the witty style that makes this book delightful to read
"Christianity permits, and sanctions, the drinking of wine, and of all the holy brethren in Palestine there are none who hold fast to this gladsome rite so strenuously as the monks of Damascus; not that they are more zealous Christians than the rest of their fellows in the Holy Land, but that they have better wine. Whilst I was at Damascus I had my quarters at the Franciscan convent there, and very soon after my arrival I asked one of the monks to let me know something of the spots that deserved to be seen... "There is nothing in all Damascus," said the good man, "half so well worth seeing as our cellars"; and forthwith he invited me to go, see, and admire the long range of liquid treasure that he and his brethren had laid up for themselves on earth. And these I soon found were not as the treasures of the miser, that lie in unprofitable disuse, for day by day, and hour by hour, the golden juice ascended from the dark recesses of the cellar to the uppermost brains of the friars..."
Highly recommended.
Written around the time of the plague that devastated Europe. There are place name spellings of places that were used in that day. This will not be everyone's cup of tea, so please take advantage of 's free "Look Inside". I have read a couple of chapters already and am a huge fan of history and find the writing to have been well-done so am looking forward to reading more of it. There are some words I am not familiar with, but I believe looking them up will make this book even more interesting than I have already found it to be.
egotistics abound by this unworldly Brit who calls wrongly most that he sees. Like a kid going to a new place ,passing judgements and honouring himself for it. Not ever going to be a best seller
Great
A wonderful book, when it's complete. But the idiot who produced this edition seems not to have grasped that the preface is part of the book, and that it lays the grounds for the plot, so he or she or it left the preface out.
asked me to review this purchase, however, my review is limited to the purpose for which I bought my second copy of Eothen.
I bought the book not to read it, but only for the artwork by Sir Francis "Frank" Brangwyn one of the greatest painters of his era. I am an architect and painter and exhibit my work worldwide and Brangwyn's work inspired me since boyhood. He is what artist's call, "a painters painter." His art is colorful, rapidly painted and with a style that bridged Impressionism and realism and created a style of his own which inspired many painters and illustrators here and abroad. In fact, after many years of being one of America's greatest illustrators, the great Dean Cornwell, "Dean of Illustrators" put aside his multi-million dollar career as illustrator to move overseas to study with Brangwyn and dedicate himself to Mural painting. He only then illustrated when he needed cash, as mural painting did not pay well.
In Eothen, there are twelve full color illustrations. My only regret is that they are reproduced at a very small scale and the reproductions are thus not as clear as I would prefer. Never the less, they are Brangwyn's and any bit of Brangwyn art is a sacred thing for painters/illustrators who specialize in figure painting. I have a large collection of larger, brilliantly colored reproductions of the art of Frank Brangwyn and often have one or more propped up on my easel for inspiration. I rated it only four stars because of the small size and less clear reproductions of the masters work. Brangwyn was the inspiration for several decades of painters and illustrators including Dean Cornwell and at the American Academy of Art the most prized books were anything with prints of Brangwyn in them, especially full color prints. His paintings were recognizable to many students and lovers of art. The brush strokes are lush like smooth splashes of colored butter. He was a wizard at handing the brush, where he appeared to splash the paint on rapidly and yet accurately. The brilliance of color, technique and lavish brush work is a feast for the eyes. Some of the greatly influenced by Brangwyn and therefore away from dry academic photo realism.
Most copies of the works of Frank Brangwyn are out of print, as are many of the books he illustrated, as is this version of Eothen. However, even now 50 years after his death at a ripe old age, artists who specialize in figure painting still seek out his work and every now and then a new publication comes forth with excellent reproductions. If you like Brangwyn's brand of Impressionism, which is closer to Italian, Spanish and Russian Impressionism you can search the net for reproductions of his works.
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