Myth & Magic: Symbols of Tradition Part 4

by Thomas Cole

This 4th installment of Myth & Symbols of Tradition includes five chapters which appeared as articles in HALI, published in the U.K. They include Ancient Imprints, Chinese Art from the Steppes, Tibetan A Tribal Tradition, A Saddle Rug from the Roof of the World, and In The Plateau Style. Appearing with more photographs as well as updated in terms of information, surprisingly these chapters conformed to the limited upload capacity of the Kindle platform. Also included is something else that might have easily appeared in HALI if it had been submitted – Kilims & The Magic in Anatolia. Since 1991, the author has been a contributing editor to HALI, a UK based publication dealing exclusively with antique textile art.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2020

About the author

Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing the New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution-era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism, urbanism, and westward expansion.