An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira was first published in 2000. Chris Andrews’ English translation was published by New Directions in 2006.
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Johann Moritz Rugendas
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Johann Moritz Rugendas was a German painter, famous in the first half of the 19th century for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas. Rugendas is
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
…Life of a Landscape Painter simultaneously navigates the territories of history, philosophy, and fantasy to offer less a biography of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) than a surreal account of his journeys through Latin America. At the prompting of explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas…
Moritz Rugendas; Calotype by Franz Hanfstaengl (before 1850).
The huaso and the washerwoman
The church of Andacollo.
Feast of San Juan in Amancaes. Lima, 1843.