“There is a word in Portuguese, sentido, that has to do with experiencing things with all one’s senses. Not just to transfer what you have seen but to use all your senses to record the place or object. That is what my work is about.” Bob Nugent

Bob Nugent first became interested in the indigenous peoples and rain forests of Brazil during a seminal visit to São Paulo in 1984. Here, among the rain forests and Amazonian vistas, the artist found the raw vitality of nature, sometimes in its undisturbed fullness, and sometimes as impacted by the incursions of man. Over the subsequent 36 years he would return again and again to the region to continue his research and study the flora and fauna of the Amazon Region and other parts of the country.

Already, Nugent’s art was being recognized and praised. In 1977 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Fellowship, and one year later a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship. But what would follow after his initial visit to Brazil was a succession of awards and recognitions for his work in portraying the meld of Amazonian life with the abstracted emotionality of our “civilized” response to it. A Fulbright grant, California Arts Council Artist Fellowship, U.S. State Department Cultural Exchange Grant, and others enabled him to continue what would become a life-long mission of depicting this world and its transformation before our very eyes.

• ISBN – 978-0-9978390-3-6
• Published by Fine Arts Press
• Essays by Maria Esther Fernandez, Preston Metcalf, Fabio Magalhaes, Roberto Elisabetsky
• Format: hard cover
• dimensions: 9.5″ x 12″
• 160 pages with 90 color images
• Price: $36.00
• order number: FAP-142-H

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