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Arts and letters / by Edmund White.
LIBRA NX456 .W49 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Edmund, 1940-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, Modern--20th century.
- Arts, Modern.
- Artists--Biography.
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 360 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Cleis Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Reading Edmund White is like sharing a cafe table with a witty professor, a clove-smoking aesthete, and a boy of fifteen. You never know who will speak the next line, but you know it will turn your head. In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century, among them Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, Andre Gide, David Geffen, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Whether he's praising Nabokov's sensuality, critiquing Elton John's walk ("as though he's a wind-up doll that's been overwound and sent heading for the top of the stairs"), or describing serendipitous moments in his seven-year-long research into the life of Genet, White is unfailingly observant, erudite, and entertaining.
- Contents:
- Writing Gay
- The new historical novel
- George Eliot
- Ivan Bunin
- Knut Hamsun
- Marcel Proust
- André Gide
- Oscar Wilde
- Joe Orton
- Paul Bowles
- Allen Ginsberg
- Djuna Barnes
- Marjorie Garber
- Bruce Chatwin
- Edwin Denby
- Coleman Dowell
- Grace Paley
- Jean Genet
- Michel Foucault
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- James Merrill
- Christopher Isherwood
- Ned Rorem
- James Baldwin
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Marcel Duchamp
- Andy Warhol
- Gilbert and George
- Joe Brainard
- Steve Wolfe
- Rebecca Horn
- Cy Twombly
- Jasper Johns
- Herbert List
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Catherine Deneuve
- David Geffen
- Elton John.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1573441953
- OCLC:
- 55085684
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