- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Swallow Press; 1 edition (Nov 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804010625
- ISBN-13: 978-0804010627
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 213 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,558,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Logsdon's 1969 title gets a facelift. In addition to the original text, in which the author tackles not only Andrew Wyeth's creative impulse but that of all artists and writers, this edition sports a new foreword by Logsdon, updating the story, and larger photos. Public and academic collections alike will want this gem."—Library Journal
“I believe artistic creativity exists in the same way a thought exists, or love, which is to say that it arises in that mysterious realm of the human animal where body and spirit intersect.”—Gene Logsdon
“I believe artistic creativity exists in the same way a thought exists, or love, which is to say that it arises in that mysterious realm of the human animal where body and spirit intersect.”—Gene Logsdon
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Wyeth People is the story of one writer’s search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world’s great artists, Andrew Wyeth. 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 what Wyeth People is about—an effort to explain a famous artist, his work, and the people who love it, by an intrigued outsider. Wyeth People is the result of Gene Logsdon’s search to find the colorful people Wyeth painted and to interview them. Originally published in 1969, Wyeth People describes how the author solved the mystery of the creative impulse, at least to his own satisfaction. It is reprinted here in paperback for the first time. As Logsdon writes: “The story of my search for why I (and millions of other people) find Wyeth’s art among the greatest that human culture has produced, is ongoing. I may never fully end my quest. But this I know. I was lucky enough to have participated in some small way in the cultural process by which an artist and his work became a classic part of American tradition."
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Wyeth People--Honest, Original, and Groundbreaking, Feb 19 2006
By Drew T - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyeth People (Paperback)
While this book is not full of critical analysis of his paintings, nor a biography and does not include page after page of color prints we've all seen before, it certainly makes Wyeth's work more real and personal. This book is rather groundbreaking in that it examines Wyeth through his subjects. Logsdon spent quite a bit of time in both Pennsylvania and Maine interviewing friends, relatives, acquaintances, and anyone with a connection to Wyeth. One gets an inside look at the characters Wyeth portrayed in The Patriot, The Drifter, and many other portraits. This is a treasure-trove of information saved for posterity, as many of Wyeth's subjects have passed. Truly, one cannot begin to speculate on the master's work before reading this book and understanding who he paints. This well-written, quick book is for any who could brand themselves a member of "Wyeth People."
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Wyeth fan, May 3 2008
By Patricia A. Arndt - Published on Amazon.com
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I am a HUGE Wyeth fan. It was an interesting angle, one at first I was afraid was bordering on "stalking" but then I got it. Trying to know the path he was walking without intruding was difficult, but made the man more human for me. I enjoyed the read.
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