These Are Not Your Grandfather's Medals
James MaloneBeach

Polymarket Press
(C) 2020
ISBN 978-0-9800312-3-2
ISBN 9-780980-031232
7-1/2 x 9-1/4 131 Numbered pages.

James MaloneBeach has been at the cutting edge of expanding the bounds of what "traditionalists" would think of as a "medal."

He honed his craft creating containers as a graduate student in medalsmithing at Iowa State, in daily life he taught high school art in Minnesota, Alabama and Michigan.

For the past thirty-five years he has created art of a very personal nature. Everything has a back story. Memories of his grandmother, father, children, teaching in Alabama, an automobile accident. Love, friendships, place, death, politics.

The book is in his voice, in his speaking cadence as if seated across a breakfast table passing these beautiful items over to you to share; then you turn the page and you are handed another medal to admire and learn about.

His medals are constructed, often from found objects and then mixed with ribbons or other media, sometimes acid etched with wording, and finally brought together into a very personal item.

Beach (he uses that form except with documents) was one of the first Americans to win an award at a FIDEM exhibition (Budapest 1994) In 2020 he has been selected as the winner of the American Medal of the Year award by the American Medallic Sculpture Association.

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