ychbv (Pdf free) The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West Online [ychbv.ebook] The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West Pdf Free Wesley Wehr ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #4976205 in Books Ingramcontent 2017-05-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .81 x 5.51l, .0 #File Name: 0295996366302 pagesThe Eighth Lively Art Conversations with Painters Poets Musicians and the Wicked Witch of the West | File size: 50.Mb Wesley Wehr : The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West: 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful book on Art, Seattle, FriendshipBy Mr. DemetreNot only is it one of the more delightful books I have read recently, it could very well be the best autobiography ever written by a lifetime resident of my hometown. "The Eighth Lively Art" is at once a colorful history of Seattle in the 1950s, a thoughtful exploration of the artistic process, and a celebration of the connections that exist between people.Wesley Wehr recounts his life as a young man in Seattle in the 1950s where, as a student of music composition at the University of Washington, he was befriended by such luminaries as painter Mark Tobey, poet Elizabeth Bishop, and actress Margaret Hamilton. He meets painters Morris Graves, Guy Anderson, and Helmi Juvonen, all of whom become lifelong friends. He has encounters with famous twentieth-century figures like photographer Imogen Cunningham and composer Ernest Bloch who offer there wisdom, hospitality, and encouragement.The book is divided into chapters that focus, for the most part, on individuals he has known and people he has met. The artists convey their ideas about life and love while sharing their personal experiences with and approaches towards the composition process. Wes Wehr also relates his own, often unsuccessful, forays into music and painting during this early stage in his life.For those of us who have grown up in Seattle, this book is a reminder of how this place has shaped our own sensibilities. How many of us, like the young Guy Anderson, wandered through the Burke Museum as a child looking at Northwest Coast Indian Art or, like Wes himself, spent our late teens hanging out on the Ave?This book is, most significantly, about the power of friendship. I am so accustomed to living in a world where everything is assigned value based on net worth or earnings potential, I often lose sight of the things which have truly enriched my own life. After reading Wes' account of the various friendships he has established and maintained over the years, I recognized more clearly how very important such friendships have been to me.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. art and rocksBy Judith B. MosesWes Wehr had that unusual ability of being able to write exactly the way he spoke. The artists he knew come alive on his pages in such a way that I felt I was listening to him tell it to me personally. I first came to know Wes through the Stonerose Museum in Republic, WA, which he helped to establish and support. As an artist, not only did I thoroughly enjoy his first book and the antedotes that he recorded, but it left me anxiously waiting for his next, The Accidental Collector. Here's an antedote of my own: while in Republic on a dig, a coffee shop in Seattle called him and told him he had left his only manuscript for the Accidental Collector laying on one of their tables that morning! These two books were supposed to be part of a trilogy, but sadly that was not to be. Wes passed away before it could be completed and we are left to imagine what gems that third one would have held. I highly recommend both these books.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Those very good old daysBy Kenneth RitterA poignant remembrance of things past (the cultural atmosphere in the 50s and 60s) as seen from Seattle's university district. Slightly beneath the text is an uncanny existential questioning, and after so many years, Wes Wehr's choices in life are still haunting. I can hear him discussing artistic issues over cafe at Aggie's on University Way, his voice so low that you had to lean forward to catch his stimulating discourse. As a young artist and musician Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked in the Northwest in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on his journals, Wehr provides an engagingly written, intriguing, and informative series of vignettes of painters Mark Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, Helmi Juvonen, Guy Anderson, and Morris Graves; photographer Imogen Cunningham; gallery owner Zoe Dusanne; poets Thoedore Roethke, Richard Selig, Elizabeth Bishop, and Leonie Adams; philosopher Susanne Langer; musicians Ernest Bloch and Berthe Poncy Jacobson; and actor Margaret Hamilton. "There is a sub-text of the artist as loner, and we are admitted into the intensities that linked various of these creative people." -- Martha Kingsbury Wesley Wehr has brought together his remarkably vivid and detailed memories, notes, and letters, and distilled from them a wonderful series of portraits with an immediacy and warmth that no formal biography could match, an intimate look at an extraordinary circle of friends and their creative worlds. (Oliver Sacks)Wesley recalls the pith of all formal lectures or mealtime chatter, and writes it down. His book is also a self?portrait of Seattle. He makes art from what artists say about art. (Ned Rorem)There is a sub?text of the artist as loner, and we are admitted into the intensities that linked various of these creative people, supporting them in their lives and art. (Martha Kingsbury)From the Inside FlapAn accomplished artist and musician, Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked in the Northwest in the 1950s and 1960s. In his journals, he recorded these artists' views of themselves and their art-making during a time of singular artistic vitality that enlivened and defined the region's culture as it interacted with the emerging modernism of the wider art world. The wittily perceptive notes, reminiscences, and conversations he has gathered into this book are a revelatory delight, providing an intimate and unique assessment of Seattle's twentieth-century art history.The Eighth Lively Art profiles painters Mark Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, Helmi Juvonen, Guy Anderson, and Morris Graves, as well as photographer Imogen Cunningham and gallery owner Zoe Dusanne. Poets Theodore Roethke, Richard Selig, Elizabeth Bishop, and Leonie Adams are characterized, as is philosopher Susanne Langer. The closing essays tell of friendships with musicians Ernest Bloch and Berthe Poncy Jacobson, and actor Margaret Hamilton (famous for her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz).Photographs of each of the artists are included, as is a brief biographical sketch. Throughout, Wehr's own voice, self-effacing and droll, provides the backbone for this engagingly written, intriguing, and informative series of vignettes. "How did these remarkable individuals converse informally?" Wehr asks. "My concern was with dialogue and with somehow catching the flavor of their spontaneous words". 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