{"product_id":"the-south-a-treasury-of-art-and-literature","title":"The South: A Treasury of Art and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eA window on more than three hundred years of life and art in Americas South  The South: A Treasury of Art and Literature is a sumptuously illustrated anthology offering a panoramic overview of a rich  multifaceted culture. The region conjures up strong images to all of us  and nowhere has its extraordinary social and political history been so fully expressed than through these carefully selected texts and images that capture the Southern love of language  sense of place  and often tragic experiences. We share the vision and passion of the unique heritage of the South through the powerful voices of favorite writers from Thomas Jefferson  Margaret Mitchell  and Mark Twain  to William Faulkner  Tennessee Williams  Martin Luther King  Jr.  Carson McCullers  Flannery OConnor  Eudora Welty  and Alex Haley. Visual artists capture the haunting environment in colorful  expressive drawings  etchings  watercolor and oil paintings  as well as remarkable folk art and stunning handicrafts. The illustrations in this magnificent collection range from Mississippian-period carved figures from the Etowah Mounds  Georgia  to a sixteenth-century map of Virginia and drawings of the Indian Village of Secoton  to historical portraits including John Trumbulls painting of George Washington and George Catlins famous drawings of native Americans  to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scenes of plantation and town life  as well as haunting Civil War images. Depression-era photographs by Walker Evans and Marion Post Wolcott are included as are images by contemporary Southern photographers like William Eggleston and Sally Mann. Garcilaso de la Vega  Captain John Smith  and Mark Catesby capture the newcomers enchantment with the lush opulence of the natural landscape. Selections from letters  diaries  and memoirs reveal the problems and promise inherent in the founding of a new society during the eighteenth century. Graphic depictions of a suppressed culture revealed through slave narratives foreshadow the cataclysm of the Civil War. The accounts of both soldiers and civilians and Robert E. Lees farewell address to his troops are eloquent testimonies to that wars great costs. The distinctly Southern experience is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in the works of its native sons and daughters; their voices and visions come to life in a rich  wide-ranging selection of texts and images describing Mardi Gras  a fourth of July barbecue  an evening of blues  or the Kentucky Derby. From local color writers like Kate Chopin  Joel Chandler Harris  and Mark Twain to the novelists  short-story writers  musicians  playwrights  and poets whose work both reflected and revitalized Southern culture during the first half of the twentieth century - William Alexander Percy  Thomas Wolfe  W. C. Handy  Richard Wright  Allen Tate  Robert Penn Warren and others - to contemporary writers like Walker Percy  Barry Hannah  Alice Walker  Shelby Foote  and Florence King  Southern writers have delighted the imagination and captured the human condition. The richness and diversity of centuries of Southern life and art are celebrated in more than two hundred carefully selected illustrations that complement the text and provide a fascinating gallery of images. Also included are the voices and images of the South as experienced by visitors to this remarkable region that has inspired so much creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946992824373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0883635933","price":44.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780883635933.jpg?v=1769976448","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-south-a-treasury-of-art-and-literature","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}