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Title: The Wondrous Strange : The Wyeth Tradition by N.C. Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth ISBN: 0-8212-2537-5 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Important Overview of a Century of Americana
Comment: For many years it has been the practice of critics and art aficionados to relegate "popular artists" the likes of Norman Rockwell and the Wyeth clan to the bin of kitsch. Time heals and alters and distance is kind as the current resurgence of appreciation of these and other artists of the land testifies. Norman Rockwell now is considered an important American artist, sensitive to basic issues of what makes America the land of the common man's dream. With this beautifully designed and written tome the same adulation should follow for the Wyeth clan. The authors (Betsy Wyeth among them) had the good idea to show the seeds of the very familiar Wyeth imagery in the work of Howard Pyle, an artist known primarily as an illustrator along the lines of over the edge fantasy adventure books. His pupil N.C. Wyeth took up the torch, primarily emulating Pyle's style but taking it to a new level. His works of isolation, thwarted desire, and simple American traditions are absorbed by his son Andrew Wyeth who won favor among collectors of realist art during the time the country was running after Modernism, Expresionism, Abstraction. And finally Jaime Wyeth, son of Andrew, has been a constant presence with his quasi-surreal take on many of the same subjects as his progenitors. The circle comes round with Pyle and Jaime Wyeth embracing the more perverse subjects - an interesting century wheel turning round and round.
The color reproductions are generous and well selected. Many of the well know Wyeth images are excluded, but in their place we are treated to images we have never seen. This is a beautiful volume and a tender one, a memento of what our childhood in the 20th Century was like before the madness currently painted hit.
Rating: 5
Summary: amazing
Comment: The images floor me. If a picture is worth a thousand words.... then this collection speaks incalculable volumes.
Rating: 5
Summary: For the non-art initiated, the book is a feast for the imagl
Comment: For the non-art initiated, the book is a feast for the imagination as well as the eyes. I bought the book because I come from the mid-coast of Maine, like the Wyeths. But when I took the time to look at the book on a night we lost power due to a snow storm, I found the views conjured stories up in my mind to match the Wondrously Strange images. I've driven by the Wyeth Center a thousand times, but made a point to visit to see for my self. I'm also fortunate to have a copy signed by Jamie Wyeth, and hope to keep as a treasure for a long time.
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Title: Visions of Adventure: N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists by John Edward Dell, Walt Reed ISBN: 0823056082 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: N.C. Wyeth: A Biography by David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0679426264 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth by et al., James H. Duff ISBN: 0821216562 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 30 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Maxfield Parrish and the Illustrators of the Golden Age by Margaret E. Wagner, Maxfield Parrish ISBN: 0764912577 Publisher: Pomegranate Communications Pub. Date: 31 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: N. C. Wyeth Paintings: 24 Full-Color Cards (Card Books) by N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0486410692 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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