Review by Library Journal Review
Distinguished artist Mark Dion travels throughout Texas to explore the trails of four historical artists and naturalists: self-taught painter Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge, botanist Charles Wright, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon, and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. During Dion's two-year journey, he meets many travel companions such as botanists, artists, and poets, and collects and makes items from his travels that culminate in an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. This exhibition catalog is divided into four parts of Texas: Gulf Coast, West Texas, King Ranch to Austin, and San Antonio. Each part includes Dion's experiences through his journal entries, as well as those of a guest writer who worked with Dion on this project. Photographs documenting Dion's travels include botanical specimens, people he meets along the way, and sights of small-town Texas. VERDICT Art students, scholars, historians, and naturalists will find this exhibition catalog enlightening and insightful.--Tina Chan, MIT Libs., Cambridge
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