The Eighth Lively Art
Subtitle: Conversations With Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780295979564
Subjects: Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects; The Arts: General Issues; Arts In General (Multi-Subject); Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; Biography/Autobiography; General; History - General; Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1929-; 20th century; Artists; Arts, American; Friends and associates; Northwest, Pacific; Wehr, Wesley,
First sentence: ONCE LONG AGO, in a then-remote region called the Pacific Northwest, there was a lovely, heavily forested, sparsely populated wilderness at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Description: "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, provides the backbone for this series of vignettes."--BOOK JACKET.