Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity
Editorial Reviews 'The Hook' Weekly (Virginia) "Llewellyn's photographs are superb, Chenoweth's essay provocative; the two represent nothing short of a new genre of art book." Book Description In 'Albemarle,' photographer Robert Llewellyn and writer Avery Chenoweth explore how the landscape of Albemarle County, where the Virginia piedmont meets the Blue Ridge Mountains, and its people have helped create an American sense of identity.
Complemented by Llewellyn's luxurious color photography, the narrative rolls back 15,000 years to the first signs of human habitation, continues through the Colonial period, and arrives in the modern era. The story traces the evolving culture of landscape as it has been played out in the lives of historic figures, from the Monacans to the Moderns, Thomas Jefferson to Lady Bird Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe to Teddy Roosevelt. With a sweeping view of aesthetics, spirituality, religion, and history, the book itself is a work of art, essential reading, and viewing, for anyone who has lived in, or been inspired by, the landscape of Albemarle County. Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity
Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity,Avery Chenoweth,Robert Llewellyn,University Press of Virginia,0974270709,Albemarle County,Albemarle County (Va.),Architecture,Description and travel,History,History - General History,Indians of North America,Landscape,Pictorial works,United States - General,United States - State & Local - General,Virginia
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