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Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986
Wagering the Land Ritual Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon 19001986 Author:Martin W. Lewis The persona that Czanne created for himself in his first decade as a painter contributed to critical dismissal of his early work as the chaotic and emotional outpouring of an unbridled imagination. Subsequent scholarship, both formalist and psychoanalytical in orientation, has tended to sustain this view of the unique and powerful body o... more »f work created before Czanne's introduction to Impressionism in 1872. Mary Tompkins Lewis here assesses Czanne's first works as a whole, with particular emphasis on the subject paintings, and demonstrates their stylistic and iconographic coherence.« less