The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, and Friendships
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Book Overview
Readers who fell in love with The Eighth Lively Art will delight in the stories and profiles that the painter and paleontologist Wesley Wehr has collected in this follow-up to his earlier memoir of Pacific Northwest artistic and intellectual life in the 1950s and 1960s. Above all, these are Wehr's accounts, distilled by passionate recollection, of what some remarkable artists and thinkers brought out in him and in each other--stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0295983825
ISBN13:9780295983820
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Artists and fossils
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Mr. Wehr has written another great book about the poets and artists that he has known. He continues where his first book leaves off. This is a collection of bits and pieces about the lives of such people as Mark Tobey, Guy Anderson, Morris Graves, and Elizabeth Bishop. He also has included in this book, more about his own life, and how he went from being a composer to a painter then to a palentologist at the Burke Museum in Seattle. He had plans to write a third book, but, unfortunately, his life was cut short when he died last year or the year before. In this book, Mr. Wehr discusses the many fossils and stones he found beachcombing. It's a great insight into the Northwest artist community of the fifties, sixties and seventies, as well as an introduction into fossil hunting. I wonder if they are still finding fossil in Republic, Washington? I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in art or beachcombing. It will set your mind dreaming. Can I paint? Can I go to a beach and find fossil sand dollars? I hope that Mr. Wehr left notes for that third book, and that someone will publish it. I want more!
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