As I turned the pages and began reading this odyssey of Barry
Johnston, as a veteran and artist, my interest increased, and I was
pleased that I had agreed to review it. 'As We Sow' is not a book
of fiction, nor a novel but an autobiography of a modern
renaissance man, but a man no-less, with all his foibles, his
successes, failures, fears and frustrations laid out with surgical
precision in the cold reality of life's twists and turns. Viet Nam
leaves an open wound Barry struggles to understand. He is empathic
to the wrongs inflected on the innocent whether from war or life
itself. His nature is sculpting figurative art imbued with his
concerns for humanity. He joins a religious art colony in the Swiss
Alps known as L'Abri where Barry argues with the founder Francis
Schaeffer over interpretation of scripture and wrestles with his
own spirit over the contradictions. Never at peace, he's at odds
with the commercial art establishment for commissions, and he
reflects on failed marriages after a near heart attack he barely
survives. Barry reveals himself with honesty and a humanity which
make this a compelling biography and a historical account of a
representational artist, veteran and inventor.
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