Reviews
"Little, who lives in Maine and has made a career of writing about artists, does a masterful job in Nature & Culture of chronicling Babb's development as an artist, but he may not appreciate Babb's Boston paintings in the way that a resident of the city might. It's Shreve who spells out the allure, describing Babb's work as "not quite photo-realistic cityscapes" that offer a view of "not just the city as it precisely is, but rather the work of art that is Boston."- Boston Globe, "Little, who lives in Maine and has made a career of writing about artists, does a masterful job in Nature & Culture of chronicling Babb's development as an artist, but he may not appreciate Babb's Boston paintings in the way that a resident of the city might. It's Shreve who spells out the allure, describing Babb's work as "not quite photo-realistic cityscapes" that offer a view of "not just the city as it precisely is, but rather the work of art that is Boston."-Boston Globe, "Little, who lives in Maine and has made a career of writing about artists, does a masterful job in Nature & Culture of chronicling Babb's development as an artist, but he may not appreciate Babb's Boston paintings in the way that a resident of the city might. It's Shreve who spells out the allure, describing Babb's work as "not quite photo-realistic cityscapes" that offer a view of "not just the city as it precisely is, but rather the work of art that is Boston."ÑBoston Globe, "Carl Little's new book showcases the stunning realism of the art of Joel Babb." --Portland Press Herald, "The dazzle of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that the viewer is able to see orders of magnitude more detail in his art than with the naked eye, a kind of brick-by-brick, leaf-by-leaf conjuring act. But the magic of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that he possesses the innate ability to 1) see with such clarity and 2) make manifest what he sees in colored oils. So much information rendered by hand is beyond nature and culture."ÑYankeemagazine.com, "Carl Little's new book showcases the stunning realism of the art of Joel Babb." -Portland Press Herald, "The dazzle of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that the viewer is able to see orders of magnitude more detail in his art than with the naked eye, a kind of brick-by-brick, leaf-by-leaf conjuring act. But the magic of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that he possesses the innate ability to 1) see with such clarity and 2) make manifest what he sees in colored oils. So much information rendered by hand is beyond nature and culture."--Yankeemagazine.com, "Little, who lives in Maine and has made a career of writing about artists, does a masterful job in Nature & Culture of chronicling Babb's development as an artist, but he may not appreciate Babb's Boston paintings in the way that a resident of the city might. It's Shreve who spells out the allure, describing Babb's work as "not quite photo-realistic cityscapes" that offer a view of "not just the city as it precisely is, but rather the work of art that is Boston."--Boston Globe, "The dazzle of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that the viewer is able to see orders of magnitude more detail in his art than with the naked eye, a kind of brick-by-brick, leaf-by-leaf conjuring act. But the magic of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that he possesses the innate ability to 1) see with such clarity and 2) make manifest what he sees in colored oils. So much information rendered by hand is beyond nature and culture."- Yankeemagazine.com, "Carl Little's new book showcases the stunning realism of the art of Joel Babb." - Portland Press Herald, "The dazzle of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that the viewer is able to see orders of magnitude more detail in his art than with the naked eye, a kind of brick-by-brick, leaf-by-leaf conjuring act. But the magic of a Babb cityscape or landscape is that he possesses the innate ability to 1) see with such clarity and 2) make manifest what he sees in colored oils. So much information rendered by hand is beyond nature and culture."-Yankeemagazine.com, "Carl Little's new book showcases the stunning realism of the art of Joel Babb." ÑPortland Press Herald
