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SMUTYLO, Allen Wild Places, Wild Hearts : Nomads of the Himalaya.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, 2007,
SMUTYLO, Allen. Wild Places, Wild Hearts : Nomads of the Himalaya. (Owen Sound, Ontario) : Tom Thomson Art Gallery, (2007). First Edition. Pp [i]-xv,(3),1-302. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo, grey paper covered boards, gilt lettering to front board and spine. "For the past 25 years, Canadian artist Allen Smutylo has travelled and created artwork in some of the most remote and desolate places on Earth. In the High Arctic, Patagonia, the Amazon, Antarctica, and the Himalaya, Smutylo has sought his muse. On a trip to eastern Ladakh in the central Himalaya in 2001, Smutylo encountered a small tribe of Tibetan Buddhist nomads known as the Changpa. That first fleeting vision of alegendary and wildly independent people stayed with the artist. Over the p ast five years, Smutylo has been creating a body of work that documents histravels and experiences with the nomadic peoples of the Himalayas, particu larly a tribe of 200 people called the Changpa who live on the eastern edgeof Ladakh, India, close to the Tibetan frontier. At an altitude of 15,000 feet in one of the world’s harshest environments, Smutylo had the rare opportunity to experience the highly complex and rich culture of the Changpa. In day-to-day life, sacred rituals and community celebrations, he observed and documented their unique lifestyle on the roof of the world. With these tribes, he found a well-adapted, proud people inextricably tied to the Himalayan mountains and to their herds of grazing animals. He also discovered that the nomads’ ability to sustain themselves, as they have for 2,000 years,is now at risk from a rapidly changing world. Passionately and richly depi cted in his artwork, Wild Places Wild Hearts: Nomads of the Himalaya takes the viewer into a strange and rarified world. Deeply spiritual, compassionate and archaic, the nomads’ culture has startling relevance for Western society. " - from the dj. Very good to fine in unclipped dustjacket. 40.00
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