Narrating Friendship: The reciprocal relationship between J.B. Childers and myself

<p>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 project.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Painting and Printmaking

Year dc:date.available

2004

Author dc:creator

• Engelmann, James Thomas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Peter Baldes

• childers
• storytelling
• narrative
• painting
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/905

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1904