Wyeth People
Gene Logsdon
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Description for Wyeth People
paperback. Wyeth People is the result of Gene Logsdon's search to find the colorful people Wyeth painted and to interview and photograph them. Originally published in 1969, Wyeth People describes how the author probed the mystery of the creative impulse.A Num Pages: 160 pages, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 330. Weight in Grams: 213.
In the 1960s, just beginning his career as a writer, Gene Logsdon read a magazine article about Andrew Wyeth in which the artist commented at length on his own creative impulse. What he said seemed so true and right and so directly applicable to writing as well as to painting that the young writer was transfixed.
He was resolved to talk to Andrew Wyeth, even though warned that the artist could be as elusive as a wild rabbit. Not quite by accident, the writer and the painter met in a roadside diner, and what happened from then on is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804010627
SKU
V9780804010627
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Gene Logsdon
Gene Logsdon (1931–2016) was the author of more than thirty books and countless magazine articles on agrarian issues including small-scale farming and sustainable living. He is the author of four Swallow Press/Ohio University Press books: All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable, Wyeth People, and The Last of the ... Read more
Reviews for Wyeth People
Public and academic collections alike will want this gem.
Library Journal
“Logsdons writing is surprisingly polished…. The people are alive and you know them; the scenes are just the other side of your windowsill.”
Courier Post, Camden, N.J.
Library Journal
“Logsdons writing is surprisingly polished…. The people are alive and you know them; the scenes are just the other side of your windowsill.”
Courier Post, Camden, N.J.