Sudden and solitary
Subtitle: Mount Shasta and its artistic legacy, 1841-2008
By: William C. Miesse with Robyn G. Peterson.
Contributors: Peterson, Robyn G.; Turtle Bay Exploration Park (Redding, Calif.)
Publisher: Turtle Bay Exploration Park; Heyday Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Redding, Calif; Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781597140881
Subjects: Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) -- In art -- Exhibitions
Genres: In art; Exhibitions.
Description: SUDDEN AND SOLITARY presents more than 150 years of artwork by the many visionary artists, past and present, big and small, who have been inspired by Mount Shasta. The mountain's grand beauty has called to a myriad of artists, from early California painters Albert Bierstadt and William Keith, to modern masters of photography such as Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Michael Kenna. As the authors state in the introduction, this book is 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.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.