AUG. 3 - 6, 2018 PART 3: WILDERNESS & THE ALASKA PAINTINGS
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 3 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings “The Mountain Behind the Mountain” Aug. 3–6, 2019 ABOVE – The cover of the exhibition brochure for Rockwell Kent’s painting exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery. Read the quote from Dostoevsky, and note how it ties into the quote below and other suggestions about “the mountain behind the mountain.” THE MOUNTAIN BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN The mountain behind or within the mountain is not the perfect or ideal mountain in some Platonic sense. Neither is it that mythical Mount of Parnassus on which the Muses dwell. Nor yet is it the Holy Mountain in which God reveals himself in theophany or transfiguration…No, it is very ordinary, very physical, very material mountain, a place of sheep and kine, of peat and of streams that one might fish in or bathe in on a summer’s day. It is an elemental mountain, of earth and air and water an