The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson Memphis State 1973 1st Ed. HB DJ

Description: ISBN 0-87870-018-0 Introduction T HE Horn Island drawings, paintings, and logs of Walter Inglis Anderson are evidences of a union between a human genius and a genius loci. As fruits of a complex but loving relationship between a human being and nature, they witness to the possibility of reconciliation between the race and the earth. Walter Anderson believed that nature has within itself order, which however requires a human witness-indeed a human lover-if it is to be "realized," a term which he employed as an active verb. Nature will respond by presenting, to the eye sufficiently objective to deserve them, "materializations" and "images" fully apprehensible only as ecstatic experience but shareable, perhaps, in art and chronicle although these be but elements and by-products of such experience. He was convinced, further, that Providence, not always efficient but willing to oblige, presided over his affair with Horn Island, which lies off the coast of Mississippi. It sometimes needed, in Walter Anderson's opinion, tactful instruction. He saw himself in the role of Adam (though by no means innocent), witness to this Eden (where the Worm flourished). But the island, as he noted in the log of January 1965 less than a year before he died, was accessible only to "celestial beings." "Providence," he wrote, "made an exception in my case." During Walter Anderson's life, his work was insufficiently appreciated. Only after his death did the record become known in its abundance: thousands of drawings, thousands of paintings (mostly watercolors), and hundreds of thousands of words, a prodigious production which will be noticed in future histories of American art. A complete accounting of the legacy has yet to be made. Voluminous though it is, it probably represents only a large fraction of his total production. As will appear below, Walter Anderson's attitude toward the preservation of what he drew, painted, and wrote was ambivalent. He may have destroyed as much as he kept, and what he kept survived more as the unconsidered clutter of a very bad housekeeper than as cherished claims X

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