Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Walcott, Derek frey50

Tiepolo's hound by Derek Walcott - 1st ed. - New York Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2000 - 163 p. col. ill. ; 25 cm.

"Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, while the poet himself longs to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound"--Of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Both journeys take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, in search of a connection between the lost, actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire."

0374105871 (alk. paper)

9780374527792

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Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903


West Indians--Europe
Quests (Expeditions)
Painters
Painting
Antillais--Voyages--Europe

Peintres--France
Peinture--


France

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