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The wild duck chase
- Title
- The wild duck chase / Martin J. Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Martin J., 1956-
- Publication
- New York : Walker & Company, 2012.
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- Description
- x, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm
- Summary
- Go inside the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest-- the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Smith chronicles the microcosm of the duck stamp contest, and the intense ideological and cultural clashes between the mostly rural hunters who buy the stamps and the mostly suburban and urban birders and conservationists who decry the hunting of waterfowl. The competition also fuels dynamic tensions between competitors and judges, and among the invariably ambitious, sometimes obsessive, and often eccentric artists.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The hunters gather -- The first battle of Specklebelly -- Guns, greed, and the grand idea -- Round one -- The second battle of Specklebelly -- The annual ordeal of artistic choices -- The power of the prize -- Round two -- What is art, anyway? -- The looming threats -- Round three -- The hunter-hugger schism -- Judgment day : the tiebreak round -- Where the wild things are -- Appendix A. How to buy a duck stamp -- Appendix B. The Federal duck stamp artists -- Appendix C. The imitators.
- ISBN
- 9780802779526
- 0802779522
- LCCN
- 2011051668
- OCLC
- ocn769010908
- 769010908
- SCSB-1657670
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library