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Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life

Meryman, Richard

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper

"A revelation. No one will ever view Andrew Wyeth's apparently tranquil works the same way again after reading this vivid and astonishing portrait of the turbulent, driven man who paints them. Richard Meryman has written a wonderful book." - Geoffrey C. Ward 
At its most fundamental level, this stunning and unique biography describes a distinguished painter's enterprise of transmitting emotion onto a flat surface. It explores all the factors that have combined to create Andrew Wyeth -- his childhood in a hothouse of creativity; his hypersensitivity; his formidable wife; his identification with people marginalized and misunderstood -- all which have made him an American icon. In the process, his realist works in watercolor and tempera, including the famous "Christina's World," have gained him a special and secure niche in the history of American art. 
The book is a portrait of obsession -- how single-mindedness has affected Wyeth's relationships and transformed his world into a realm of secrecy and fervid imagination. Those who read this book will never look at Wyeth's work as they did before. It reveals the artist's dark depths, as well as the ruthless, angry, child/man fantasist who paints the basic brutalities of existence -- death and madness --that vibrate eerily beneath his pictures' calm surfaces. 
Richard Meryman's narrative is almost novelistic, with its larger-than-life characters and subplots: the tragedy of C.C. Wyeth; Betsy Wyeth's campaign for independence and individuality; the byzantine 15-year-long drama of the Helga paintings; the eccentric and creative Wyeth clan; and the idiosyncratic land and people of Maine and Pennsylvania. 
Based on 30 years of research, frequent visits and countless conversations with the artist, his family, friends, admirers and critics, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life is the only book about the man and the artist that gets behind his carefully guarded screen, tells the full story of his life and reveals his complex personality and the motivations for his paintings.

Humor & Entertainment

Harper-perennial

Records the emotional, psychological, and physiological details of a woman's addiction to alcohol, the deceit and humiliation involved, her struggle with shame and anger, and her gradual, difficult recovery

Broken Promises, Mended Dreams

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Little,Brown & Co

Meryman shares the heart-wringing story of his wife Hope's heroic struggle against cancer and the tender love and joy that broke through the painful family ordeal of coping with suffering and death

Hope: A Loss Survived

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Records the emotional, psychological, and physiological details of a woman's addiction to alcohol, the deceit and humiliation involved, her struggle with shame and anger, and her gradual, difficult recovery

Broken Promises

BERKLEY

Still Talking

Rivers, Joan.

Arts & Literature

Century

Examines the life and work of the popular American artist.

First Impressions: Andrew Wyeth

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

first edition, excellent condition, 17-1/2" x 13-1/4"

ANDREW WYETH

Boston: Houghton Mifflin

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Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life

Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life

Broken Promises, Mended Dreams

Hope: A Loss Survived

Broken Promises

Still Talking

First Impressions: Andrew Wyeth

ANDREW WYETH