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Plausible portraits of James Lord : with commentary by the model.
LIBRA Special N7628.L58 L67 2003
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Fine Arts Library N7628.L58 L67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lord, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lord, James--Portraits.
- Lord, James.
- Portraits--Psychological aspects.
- Portraits.
- Portraits--History--20th century.
- Portrait photography--Psychological aspects.
- Portrait photography.
- Psychological aspects.
- History.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Summary:
- Over the course of his life as a friend and confidant of artists and collectors, and as a lover of art himself, James Lord has written some of the best accounts we have of modern aesthetic genius; his biography of Giacometti was widely acclaimed for succeeding, in the words of one reviewer, "in every way as one of the most readable, fascinating and informative documents, not just on an artist, but on art and artists in general" (The Washington Times). Through his connection with the twentieth century's great artists, it was natural that Lord should himself become the object of the artist's gaze. In fact, from the time he was a young man, Lord sat for many of the major and minor painters and photographers of his day, including Balthus, Cocteau, Cartier-Bresson, Freud, Giacometti, and Picasso -- in all but one case at the artist's request. In Plausible Portraits Lord gathers his reflections alongside these images, penetrating the mind of artist and model alike in a sequence of illuminating double portraits of two artists at work.
- Contents:
- Picasso 3
- Chapoval 19
- Gindertael 27
- Mondain 33
- Brown 45
- Freud 49
- Cocteau 57
- Maar 63
- Craxton 73
- Giacometti 79
- Morgan 101
- Balthus 107
- Mason 127
- Cartier-Bresson 133
- Szafran 149
- Toubeau 157
- Theimer 163
- A Russian Artist 171
- Secheret 177
- Cordell 187
- Lennard 193
- Roy 199
- Papetti 203
- Palliser 209.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374281742
- OCLC:
- 50198849
- Online:
- Publisher description
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