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Some of my lives : a scrapbook memoir / Rosamond Bernier.
Fine Arts Library NX640.5.B47 A3 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernier, Rosamond.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bernier, Rosamond.
- Art critics--United States--Biography.
- Art critics.
- United States.
- Arts, Modern--20th century.
- Arts, Modern.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
- Summary:
- Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many of the greatest artists and composers of the 20th century. She has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal "L'OEIL", which she co-founded in 1955. 320 pp. 10,000 print.
- Contents:
- Disgrace 3
- Some Musicians I Have Known 6
- Stokowski 11
- Aaron Copland 15
- Leonard Bernstein 23
- Early Mexican Moments 30
- Some Animals I Have Known 32
- Up, Up, and Away 38
- Under the Volcano (pace Malcolm Lowry) 41
- Malcolm Lowry 43
- Paul and Jane Bowles 47
- The Good Neighbors 51
- More Mexican Moments 56
- Vogue-First Job 64
- Chick Austin 68
- Virgil, Aaron, and Nadia Boulanger 72
- Paris Again 74
- Now It's London 82
- In Search of Proust 84
- Visits to Matisse 90
- Rene Clair and Vittorio De Sica 100
- On My Own for Vogue: First Visit to Picasso 105
- Picasso and Antibes 110
- LŒIL Begins with a Gift from Picasso 114
- Berthe Morisot's Daughter 128
- Goncharova, Larionov, and Pevsner 136
- Wifredo Lam 139
- Venetian Adventures-Venice Observed 141
- Georges Braque-Lord of the Birds 144
- Remembering Fernand Léger 149
- Alberto Giacometti 156
- My Friend Miró 164
- Henry Moore 179
- Max Ernst 186
- Chanel Comeback 192
- Visiting Karl Lagerfeld 200
- Once Upon a Time: Life at Mouton Rothschild 205
- Louise Bourgeois, a Loving Memory 211
- Sitting for David Hockney 219
- Jerome Robbins 224
- The Editor as Talker 233
- Lecturing Notes 237
- Still Talking 239
- Philip Johnson and Our Wedding 243
- Some of John's Musical Friends 246
- About John 256
- To the Met with Alex Katz 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780374266615
- 0374266611
- OCLC:
- 706020963
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