Wanderings of a Wayward Woodcarver
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Wanderings of a Wayward Woodcarver

Stories from a Life in Wood

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Wanderings of a Wayward Woodcarver

Stories from a Life in Wood

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Charming, humorous, sometimes tragic, and always fascinating vignettes from a life spent in craftmanship.

They say life is a merry-go-round—for Gerry Holzman, this has been literally and figuratively true. A master figure carver who has restored over 100 pieces of antique carousel art, created 250 pieces of original carousel carving, and was the head carver and executive director of New York's landmark Empire State Carousel Project, Holzman has devoted the past 50 years to woodcarving, and his skill has taken him around the world as a student, teacher, craftsman, and artist.Throughout this giddy merry-go-round of a career, he has encountered many intriguing ways to use our brief time on earth and invites us to accompany him as he strives to understand and appreciate them all.

Wanderings of a Wayward Woodcarver is Holzman's record of a lifetime spent in the craft and the many lessons it has taught him about what it means to be a carver and what it means to be a human being, plus a recounting of the many memorable characters he has met along the way.

From master carver Gino Masero, who taught Holzman much about carving, life, creativity, and decency, to Holzman's students who touched his life deeply, to a sign carver who could not read, a witch who invited Holzman to visit her coven, and the mafioso who showed Holzman how to prevent his carvings from being stolen, Wanderings of a Wayward Woodcarver shows how a life in craft is the perfect viewpoint to see the whole of the human condition.

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Publisher
Linden Publishing
Year
2022
ISBN
9781610354011
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Artist Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword By Liam Stegman
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: The Sounds of Carving
  9. But First—a Caution to Potential Critics
  10. In the Beginning
  11. A Face in the Woods
  12. “Are You an Artist?”
  13. The Past Is Present
  14. The Last Woodcarver
  15. Friendly Hands
  16. The Elevenses Were Brilliant
  17. Baseball Bats and Carving Mallets
  18. Full Circle
  19. An Eight-Year-Old Kibitzer
  20. The Boundaries of Bargaining
  21. A Perfect Bargain
  22. A Valuable Volkswagen
  23. Passing It On
  24. The Woodcarver Who Couldn’t Carve Wood
  25. The Ballad of the Bread-Knife
  26. The World According to Joe Romano
  27. Diogenes Does Brooklyn
  28. Bobby or Bullshitter?
  29. How the Devil Do You Carve a Ship’s Figurehead?
  30. Strangers on the Deck
  31. “I Shudda Gone to Saskatchewan”
  32. Of Mice and Men—and Woodcarvers
  33. Breakfast with Charley
  34. Here Come the Judge
  35. “Tell Me, Mr. Judge …”
  36. An Emerging American Primitive
  37. Felix and Oscar
  38. The Captain and the Carver
  39. Splendiferous Carvings that Never Were
  40. Take It or Leaf It
  41. The Man Who Loved Too Much
  42. Mon Frère En Bois
  43. It Ain’t Over till It’s Over
  44. How to Be an Artist
  45. Creativity
  46. Why?
  47. The Woodcarver and the Winemaker
  48. Boids by Marshall
  49. There Are Many Roads to Rome
  50. Another Way?
  51. Always Listen to the Little Man
  52. Barter
  53. The Headless Horse of the Hamptons
  54. “Hi Gerry … and How Are You Feeling Today?”
  55. “Sometimes We Get Lunch”
  56. They Came to the Carousel
  57. The Beheading of John Philip Sousa
  58. Upstate Is Another Country
  59. The Wayward Press
  60. Honesty Is a Sometimes Thing
  61. Window Chopping
  62. Me and Dick Nixon
  63. A Not-So-Wicked Witch
  64. Solvitur Ambulando
  65. The Persistence of Nat Gutman
  66. A Thread that Binds
  67. A Blessing from the Butcher
  68. Epilogue
  69. Index
  70. Acknowledgments
  71. About the Author
  72. Back Cover