Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory

Jerry R. West

ISBN 10: 0890136033 / ISBN 13: 9780890136034

Published by Museum Of New Mexico Press Mai 2015, 2015

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Neuware - Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory is the long-awaited, richly deserved retrospective of one of Santa Fe and New Mexico's most prominent artists. West was born in 1933 before the war that brought New Mexico into the modern century. His father Harold E. ('Hal') West, a WPA artist, anchored his son in the rugged world of ranch life and an abiding respect for American regionalism. Dreams, memory, prairie, the night sky; demons, family, history; remoteness and the grandeur of the vast windmills, coyotes and low-flying ravens; childhood, manhood, a tiny white kite and an advancing storm; vulnerability and masculinity; the strong, saturated colors of an artist who knows what he knows - a figurative artist of the subconscious nestled in peronal history with the New Mexico roots intact. Featuring ninety painting and some prints and murals that cover the period from early 1960s to the present and narrated by the artist.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory
• Publisher: Museum Of New Mexico Press Mai 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890136033
• ISBN 13: 9780890136034
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 315W x 264H x 25D millimeters 315 millimeters width by 264 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1746 grams

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Synopsis

Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory is the long-awaited, richly deserved retrospective of one of Santa Fe and New Mexico’s most prominent artists. West was born in 1933 before the war that brought New Mexico into the modern century. His father Harold E. (“Hal”) West, a WPA artist, anchored his son in the rugged world of ranch life and an abiding respect for American regionalism, with a deep affinity for family, the ease of friendships, and the loneliness of the Dust Bowl prairie. West’s paintings explore the complex psychology of his dreams and the vividness of memories mixed in with his experiences and perceptions being a child of a world scarred by wars and the atomic bomb. All of this produces rich, complex, often challenging paintings of metaphor and allegory that speak powerfully to the beauty, mystery, and magnificence of the human condition that West examines in his work.

About the Author

Jerry R. West is one of New Mexico's most prominent artists.