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Driftwood : The Life of Harlan Hubbard by Jessica K. Whitehead (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
ISBN-101985901544
ISBN-139781985901544
eBay Product ID (ePID)6068569069
Product Key Features
Number of Pages408 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDriftwood : the Life of Harlan Hubbard
SubjectCultural Heritage, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental & Land Art
Publication Year2025
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaNature, Art, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJessica K. Whitehead
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight28 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
ReviewsDriftwood is a wonder, much like the Hubbard's themselves. Jessica K. Whitehead brings Anna and Harlan Hubbard to life with insight, creativity, and skill. For those who are already admirers of the Hubbards this book will be a treasure. For those just becoming aware of them, Driftwood will be a wonderfilled vehicle to travel through the lives of two remarkable human beings. What will readers find on board Driftwood ? A love story...an adventure story...the passions and frustrations of the artist... and perhaps a guide to living fuller, richer lives., Jessica Whitehead's Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard is one of the most brilliantly written books that I have ever had the good fortune to read. Her ability to weave history into a riveting and timeless story of a Northern Kentucky artist will render this book the definitive biography of Harlan Hubbard. She paints a vivid picture of Harlan and Anna, resurrecting memories of this talented and countercultural couple whom I and so many others were honored to know., Jessica K. Whitehead has done more than brick-and-mortar work to reconstruct the forces and personalities that shaped the life of a unique Kentuckian. She has done much more, tracing the quest of Kentucky's Thoreau for a life lived close to the bone in the natural world, a life that combines simple living with genuine creativity. The book becomes a reflection on the restlessness of the American spirit and asks what it means to pursue individual happiness free of the mania of owning things and the amassing of wealth that too single-mindedly has answered for the American dream. In a feat of research and revelation that avoids hagiography, Whitehead has made this icon fully human, examining the mythos of a legendary Kentuckian to reveal the essential Hubbard, a man we would have to invent if he had not existed., Jessica Whitehead has done more than brick and mortar work to construct the forces and personalities that shaped the life of a unique Kentuckian. She has done much more, tracing the quest of Kentucky's Thoreau for a life lived close to the bone in the natural world, a life that combines simple living with genuine creativity. The book becomes a reflection on the restlessness of the American spirit as she pushes the limits of what it means to pursue individual happiness free of the mania of owning things and the amassing of wealth that too single-mindedly has answered for the American dream. A feat of research and revelation that avoids hagiography, she has made this icon fully human, examining the mythos of a legendary Kentuckian to reveal the essential Hubbard, a man we would have to invent if he had not existed., Whitehead's Driftwood is a vantage point from which we may survey not only the life of Hubbard, its component circumstance, coincidence, and experience, but also the topography of symbol and meaning that Hubbard explored. The hills, hollers, creeks, and rivers of our Bluegrass are revived and sustained by Hubbard's work and Whitehead's telling of it. Hubbard is hierophant of the wild and growing world, exemplifying quiet stewardship, gentle cooperation, and an ability to express the movement of the animate wilderness while communicating our place within it. Whitehead has traced the long shadow cast by Hubbard so that we may walk in the shade with understanding, surefooted and clear-eyed in the edenic garden that is our state., The story of Harlan Hubbard, known for his simple lifestyle and his art, has been told many times before but [ Driftwood ] goes deeper as author Jessica Whitehead tells how 'someone so extraordinary as Harlan Hubbard became Harlan Hubbard.', Jessica K. Whitehead's Driftwood... is cause for celebration among all who cherish the art he made, and the art of how he lived., Place Harlan Hubbard in the line of American rebel mystics--from Everett Ruess to Scott and Helen Nearing to Daniel Suelo--who marched away from the casino economy toward a life woven with nature's risks and ecstasies. Driftwood gives him the rich and wise consideration he has long deserved., An epic story of our conflictive American nature and the many currents that finally deposited into place one of our most authentic artists and writers.
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Table Of ContentPrologue: I Need A Flood in My Soul Part I: Revelation - 1900-1919 1. Bright Spirit 2. Flax Beaters, Citadels, and Reformers 3. Bellevue 4. Restlessness 5. Afoot 6. Observing the World 7. Soldiers of the Soil Part II: The Language of Landscape - 1919-1942 8. The Academy 9. A Blind Alley 10. We Are Still in Eden 11. Quiet Desperation 12. "I am set to light" 13. Land of Nevermore 14. Studio of Nature 15. Forbidden Fruits 16. The American Scene 17. Emergence 18. The Librarian Part III: Recording a Vanishing World - 1943-1988 19. Rivers to the Sea 20. Vagrants 21. The Pure Delight of Drifting 22. On the Fringe 23. Run Out of River 24. Settlers 25. A Little Seven-Acre World 26. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall 27. I Rejoice After My Own Fashion 28. Is This Evolution? Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
Synopsis" I need a flood in my soul, to carry off all the old drift and the flimsy habits that have extended down to the water's edge."--Harlan Hubbard, Journals Writer, artist, and sustainability pioneer Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988) lived a quiet, unassuming life, and yet he is thoroughly embedded in Kentucky's historical memory. While some may know of Hubbard's shantyboat sojourn on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers with his wife, Anna, or of Payne Hollow, their hand-built homestead, few know the full story. After four decades of transformation, Hubbard emerged in middle age as the rightful heir to the Transcendentalist ethos, ready to envision a unique existence of simplicity and wild beauty akin to that of the revered Henry David Thoreau. In this comprehensive biography, Jessica K. Whitehead reveals why Hubbard is beloved by his fellow Kentuckians and has been an inspiration to generations of readers interested in art, adventure, and environmentalism. Driftwood delves into Hubbard's family background, education, and relationships, and into his theories on art, writing, music, and philosophy. Using journals, letters, paintings, manuscripts, and sketches, Whitehead pieces together the distinct phases of Hubbard's life, providing new insights into his character and legacy. By examining his perspectives on creativity and responsible living, Whitehead connects the early Hubbard, who grappled with his identity and yearned for travel, with the confident and intentional Hubbard of Payne Hollow. Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard is a complex portrait of a person who deserves a place alongside other iconic American thinkers and artists in the nation's broad cultural history. It offers a vivid depiction of Hubbard, the traces he left behind, and his template for sustainability in our modern ecological landscape.
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