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Driftwood : the life of Harlan Hubbard / Jessica K. Whitehead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehead, Jessica K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hubbard, Harlan--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hubbard, Harlan.
- Artists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (421 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2025]
- Summary:
- " I need a flood in my soul, to carry off all the old drift and the flimsy habits that have extended down to the water's edge."--Harlan Hubbard, Journals Writer, artist, and sustainability pioneer Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988) lived a quiet, unassuming life, and yet he is thoroughly embedded in Kentucky's historical memory.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: I Need a Flood in My Soul
- Part 1. Revelation, 1900-1919
- Chapter 1. Bright Spirit
- Chapter 2. Flax Beaters, Citadels, and Reformers
- Chapter 3. Bellevue
- Chapter 4. Restlessness
- Chapter 5. Afoot
- Chapter 6. Observing the World
- Chapter 7. Soldiers of the Soil
- Part 2. The Language of Landscape, 1919-1942
- Chapter 8. The Academy
- Chapter 9. A Blind Alley
- Chapter 10. We Are Still in Eden
- Chapter 11. Quiet Desperation
- Chapter 12. "I Am Set to Light"
- Chapter 13. Land of Nevermore
- Chapter 14. Studio of Nature
- Chapter 15. Forbidden Fruits
- Chapter 16. The American Scene
- Chapter 17. Emergence
- Chapter 18. The Librarian
- Part 3. Recording a Vanishing World, 1943-1988
- Chapter 19. Rivers to the Sea
- Chapter 20. Vagrants
- Chapter 21. The Pure Delight of Drifting
- Chapter 22. On the Fringe
- Chapter 23. Run Out of River
- Chapter 24. Settlers
- Chapter 25. A Little Seven-Acre World
- Chapter 26. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
- Chapter 27. I Rejoice after My Own Fashion
- Chapter 28. Is This Evolution?
- Epilogue: Unconscious Leavings
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration Gallery 1
- Illustration Gallery 2.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781985901575
- 1985901579
- OCLC:
- 1484385154
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