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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Based on "Scenes From the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs" by Thomas Hart Benton, written by Donna Baier Stein, readers get the combination or marriage of Artistic Achievement plus a Literary Interpretation and Storytelling. Donna Baier Stein vividly describes the lithographs she views with her amazing storytelling skills. There are about nine stories to match the number of lithographs. Thomas Hart Benton describes through his paintings, and art, times of American History in the 1930's and 1940's. We get to see the importance of music, and dance, and the political climate of the time. Donna Baier Stein depicts her writing skills to create each scene with a story. I found many of the stories intriguing and captivating. Donna Baier Stein, writes about slavery, poverty, inequality and many other important topics of the time. There are problems, and the author depicts the courage and faith that people have to adapt. I would recommend this unique book of stories, for readers who enjoy history. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
When a contemporary writer turns her imagination loose inside the images of an iconicartist of the past, the result is storytelling magic at its best. Here are nine tales that bring to vivid life the early decades of the 20th century as witnessed by one of America's most well-known painters. Thomas Hart Benton sketched fiddlers and farm wives, preachers and soldiers, folks gathering in dance halls and tent meetings. Though his lithographs depict the past, the real-life people he portrayed face issues that are front and center today: corruption, women's rights, racial inequality. In these stories we enter the imagined lives of Midwesterners in the late 1930s and early 1940s. A mysterious woman dancing to fiddle music makes one small gesture of kindness that helps heal the rift of racial tensions in her small town. A man leaves his childhood home after a tragic accident and becomes involved with the big-time gamblers who have made Hot Springs, Arkansas, their summer playground. After watching her mother being sent to an insane asylum simply for grieving over a miscarriage, a girl determines to never let any man have any say over her body. Then as now, Americans have struggled with poverty, illness, and betrayal. Thesefictions reveal our fellow countrymen and women living with grace and strong leanings toward virtue, despite the troubles that face them. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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From the Publisher: “When a contemporary writer turns her imagination loose inside the images of an iconic artist of the past, the result is storytelling magic at its best…Then as now, Americans have struggled with poverty, illness and betrayal. These fictions reveal our fellow countrymen and women living with grace and strong leanings toward virtue, despite the troubles that face them”
Before I received a copy of Scenes from the Heartland, I was familiar with the lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. The stories Benton tells in his art are vivid depictions of rural life in the early 20th century. I felt his lithographs absolutely come alive in the 9 short stories Donna Baier-Stein has written.
It is so hard to mention a favorite story, the stories of life in America’s heartland are all wonderful, but I would choose The Sweet Perfume of Somewhere Else and Under the Weight of his Mothers Body. All 9 stories are well written and capture a time and a place in a way that I know you’ll enjoy reading as I did.
Thank you Donna Baier Stein for the complimentary copy, I enjoyed every minute ( )