Image of a man : the journal of Keith Vaughan / Alex Belsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belsey, Alex, author.

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; Volume 77.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; Volume 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaughan, Keith, 1912-1977--Diaries.

Vaughan, Keith.

Painters--England--Diaries.

Painters.

Literary theory.

England.

Genre:

Diaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

I want to know what I am, what I want, what I can do, what is real, what is lovely."0The post-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. 'Image of a Man' is the first book to provide a comprehensive critical reading of Vaughan's extraordinary journal, which spans thirty-eight years and sixty-one volumes to form a major literary work and a fascinating document of changing times.0From close textual analysis of the original manuscripts, this book uncovers the attitudes and arguments that shaped and reshaped Vaughan's identity as a man and as an artist. It reveals a continual process of self-construction through journal-writing, undertaken to navigate the difficulties of conscientious objection, the complications of desire as a gay man, and the challenges of making meaningful art.0By focussing on Vaughan's journal-writing in the context of its many influences and its centrality to his art practice, 'Image of a Man' offers not only a compelling new critical biography of a significant yet underappreciated artist, but also a sustained argument on the constructed nature of the `artist' persona in early and mid-twentieth-century culture - and the opportunities afforded by journal and diary forms to make such constructions possible.

Contents:

Image of a man: the journal of Keith Vaughan

Contents

Acknowledgements

Image of a Man: An Introduction

Notes on the Text

Outsider

1. War and the Objector

2. Society and the Observer

Creator

3. Autobiography and the Intellectual

4. Art and the Artist

Curator

5. Self-editorship and ‘Keith Vaughan’

The Diaristic Impulse and Self-construction: An Afterword

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78962-357-X

1-78962-447-9