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• W1521605381 abstract "Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez. By Patsy Pittman Light. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 135. Preface, acknowledgments, chronology, donors, notes, bibliography, index, $30.00.) Images of the long-overlooked works created in the first half of the twentieth century by artisan Dionicio Rodriguez have been collected and presented in this book by Patsy Pittman Light. Light, an artist and teacher, has catalogued and photographed the romantic garden structures created by Rodriguez, first in his native Mexico, then in Texas, and thence northerly in his movement as an itinerant artist. She wishes to draw attention to a previously uncelebrated artist about whom little has been written. Rodriguez's chosen medium was concrete. His works consisted of naturalistically rendered interpretations of trees, rocks, and other components of a particularly romanticized landscape vision in which he converted the otherwise ephemeral into enduring representations. Rodriguez did this in service of visual fantasy, instilling in his works of Faux Bois (or, as the technique is known in Mexico, Trabajo Rustico) in public parks and on private property an element of the surreal through his creation of benches, shelters, railings, and other artistically rendered structures. For Rodriguez the artist, concrete was manipulated to represent components of nature. And in Rodriguez's world, trees always seemed to grow in forms to accommodate the human body. Logs become hollow in just the right way to become seats, twigs bend and rocks erode in perfect accommodation of a person's movement through a space. Light's appreciation of Rodriguez's work is well considered. She roots his work in French, American, and other cultures beginning with the nineteenth century but also Latin American, and particularly Mexican, traditions, giving breadth to an understanding of the decorative nature of his work. Rodriguez's work, especially in North Little Rock, should make him a more familiar figure to Arkansans. He designed and created Pugh Park's Old Mill in 1932 and its adjoining concrete trees, trellises, railings, bridges, and more, and his work has long been a beloved, if rather anonymous, presence in that park. The extensively detailed, almost obsessive nature of the work created for Pugh Park gives testimony to Rodriguez's genius, and the success and popularity of this work earned it a mention in 1941's widelyread WPA guide to Arkansas, as well as a cameo in the opening scenes of 1939's blockbuster movie Gone with the Wind. …" @default.
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