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A dazzling look back at six decades of paintings by America's favourite artist - the crowning book of Wyeth's career.
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This lavish volume is the most comprehensive retrospective of the artists work ever produced. But what makes this book truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting - an ' autobiography' , told through interviews with Thomas Hoving, that offers fascinating and sometimes unexpected facts about Wyeth's life and art.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Andrew Wyeth is an American national treasure and this book gives the reader a chance to gain some insight into a very private man.From an artistic point of view his work gives us a chance to scrutinize not only the world that surrounds him but also the emotion that drives the man to paint in such a way.The book represents six decades of his working life.Each painting is accompanied by fascinating comments by Wyeth himself.Not only is this book a remarkable primer to his work but becomes almost a sacred treasure itself.A book you will keep going back to.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Some twenty-plus years ago I caught a South Bank Show featuring Andrew Wyeth. I was instantly captivated by the almost magical beauty of his painting. Unfortunately for me I didn't think to note the name of the artist at the time and so it is only recently, and to my great delight, that I rediscovered his work.
His use of colour and the way he captures the light as it interacts with his subjects is incredible, even the most mundane objects take on a fascination that is hard to fathom and the portraits and landscapes have a power that draws you into them such that you might lose youself in them.
This book is not, as the title might suggest, an actual autobiography, but rather a collection of his work in chronolological order,the earliest from 1933 (aged 16) to 1993 comments from the painter appended to each. The comments are offer some interesting insights into the artist's character and motivation(and some humour too). There is an excellent variety of material (as you might expect in a work that covers 60 years of a painters life) capturing every aspect of the painter's work.
The quality of the presentation cannot be faulted, superb reproductions,of a good size and on high quality paper. My only wish is that the book was of a larger size (but I'm probably just being greedy since such a book would amost certainly cost three or four times as much).Also it should be noted that some of the artist's most famous work ('Christina's World' for example) is not presented here.
In summary I would say that this is a perfect introduction to Andrew Wyeth (in more ways than one) and a thing of beauty in its own right.
His use of colour and the way he captures the light as it interacts with his subjects is incredible, even the most mundane objects take on a fascination that is hard to fathom and the portraits and landscapes have a power that draws you into them such that you might lose youself in them.
This book is not, as the title might suggest, an actual autobiography, but rather a collection of his work in chronolological order,the earliest from 1933 (aged 16) to 1993 comments from the painter appended to each. The comments are offer some interesting insights into the artist's character and motivation(and some humour too). There is an excellent variety of material (as you might expect in a work that covers 60 years of a painters life) capturing every aspect of the painter's work.
The quality of the presentation cannot be faulted, superb reproductions,of a good size and on high quality paper. My only wish is that the book was of a larger size (but I'm probably just being greedy since such a book would amost certainly cost three or four times as much).Also it should be noted that some of the artist's most famous work ('Christina's World' for example) is not presented here.
In summary I would say that this is a perfect introduction to Andrew Wyeth (in more ways than one) and a thing of beauty in its own right.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
We first saw some of Andrew Wyeth's work at Mama in New York and enjoed his very individual style. Then this year we spent our holiday in New England and by chance visited a town called Rockport and the Farnsworth Museum. They were holding an exhibition of his work to celebrate his life as he has recently died.The connection was made, especially as many of his famous paintings of Christina Olson and her family were focused on the nearby village. We just had to find out more and the book started to fill some of the missing gaps of knowledge. The reproductions of his paintings put along side the description were perfect, and beautifully done. A book to treasure.
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