In the Purely Pagan Sense
Author: John Lehmann
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 264
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In the Purely Pagan Sense
Author: John Lehmann
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHomintern
Author: Gregory Woods
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0300228740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called "the Homintern" (an echo of Lenin's "Comintern") by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.
John Lehman
Author: A. T. Tolley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1987-12-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0773595929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, two novels and a distinguished literary autobiography. All aspects of Lehmann's work are discussed in this book of recollections and essays of friends, critics and other writers.
John Lehmann
Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780886290634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, two novels and a distinguished literary autobiography. All aspects of Lehmann's work are discussed in this book of recollections and essays of friends, critics and other writers.
Francis Bacon
Author: Michael Peppiatt
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 178033737X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1996, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma was the first in-depth study of the artist's life. It has not been superseded. In this substantially revised, updated edition - to coincide with the artist's centenary, which will be celebrated from autumn 2008 through summer 2009 - Peppiatt will incorporate confidential material Bacon gave him, which he did not include in the first edition. This valuable, first-hand information comes from the hundreds of conversations Bacon had with Peppiatt, often late into the night, over thirty years, particularly during the periods Bacon spent living and working in Paris. It includes insights into Bacon's intimate relationships, his artistic convictions and his general view of life, as well as his acerbic comments on his contemporaries. Peppiatt will draw on some of the fascinating information that has become available in the fifteen years since the artist died. Once jealously guarded by the artist himself, the contents of Bacon's studio can now be freely consulted; Peppiatt has had privileged access to these archives, and he will show how a number of recent discoveries - including wholly unexpected source material - have radically changed the way we look at Bacon's work. Similarly, his recent research into the artist's background - his tortured affair with the sadistic Peter Lacy in Tangier, for instance, and the baffling circumstances of his death in Madrid - will shed light on unexplored areas of Bacon's life and work. Peppiatt will also unveil new information from several people who knew Bacon intimately and who have never gone on record previously.
Ten Years On The Parish
Author: Mike Morris
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1786948303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Garrett (1896-1966) was a Merchant Seaman, writer, playwright and radical activist. His autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, written in the late 1930s, is published here together with a series of letters between Garrett and New Writing editor John Lehmann, which reveal a unique insight into the relationship between a working-class writer and his editor.
Francis Bacon
Author: Mark Stevens
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2021-03-23
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 052565674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR Named one of The Irish Times' Books of the Year for 2021 A compelling and comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. This intimate study of the singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his extraordinary art “is bejeweled with sensuous detail … the iconoclastic charm of the artist keeps the pages turning” (The Washington Post). “A definitive life of Francis Bacon ... Stevens and Swan are vivid scene setters ... Francis Bacon does justice to the contradictions of both the man and the art.” —The Boston Globe Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both twentieth century art and life—from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych 1944 (its images "so unrelievedly awful" that people fled the gallery), to his death in Madrid in 1992. Bacon was a witty free spirit and unabashed homosexual at a time when many others remained closeted, and his exploits were as unforgettable as his images. He moved among the worlds of London's Soho and East End, the literary salons of London and Paris, and the homosexual life of Tangier. Through hundreds of interviews, and extensive new research, the authors probe Bacon's childhood in Ireland (he earned his father's lasting disdain because his asthma prevented him from hunting); his increasingly open homosexuality; his early design career—never before explored in detail; the formation of his vision; his early failure as an artist; his uneasy relationship with American abstract art; and his improbable late emergence onto the international stage as one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. In all, Francis Bacon: Revelations gives us a more complete and nuanced--and more international--portrait than ever before of this singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his equally eruptive, extraordinary art. Bacon was not just an influential artist, he helped remake the twentieth-century figure.
Articulate Flesh
Author: Gregory Woods
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0300038720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the themes of the male body, war, and homosexual love in poetry, and analyzes the poetry of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn.
Tiresian Poetics
Author: Ed Madden
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780838639375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Blind seer, articulate dead, and mythic transsexual, the figure of Tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries. In twentieth-century literature, the boundaries crossed andembodied by Tiresias are primarily sexual, and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with Tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasure. Indeed, in literature of the twentieth century, Tiresias has come to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualities." "This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century. As Victorian andmodernist writers reimagined Ovid's tale of sex change and sexual judgment, they also created a poetics that grounded artistic or perfonnative power in figures of sexual difference - most often a feminized, often homosexual malebody, which this study links to the developing discourses of homosexuality and sexual identity."--BOOK JACKET.
