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Narrating Friendship: The Reciprocal Relationship Between J.B. Childers And Myself, James Thomas Engelmann
Narrating Friendship: The Reciprocal Relationship Between J.B. Childers And Myself, James Thomas Engelmann
Theses and Dissertations
For the past ten months I have explored the life of a deceased artist named Joseph Barley "J.B." Childers. In the graduate catalog Gregory Volk summarizes Childers as, "an alienated Korean War Veteran, who took up painting as a refuge from his troubles, and who also doesn't exist. Childers who is naturally right-handed, painted everything left-handed because of a war wound, and so Engelmann, who is left-handed, painted with his right hand, which is quite a limitation." Of course, there's more to the story than that and the writings that follow will explain many of my reasons for pursuing this …