Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780890136034)

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.

Author: Jerry R. West, Solnit Rebecca, Rebecca Solnit
ISBN-10: 0890136033
ISBN-13: 9780890136034
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2015
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.85lbs
Size: 12.40h x 10.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/08/2015
Choice 11/01/2015