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Lord was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up there.
(One of the best-known historians of twentieth-century art...)
One of the best-known historians of twentieth-century art recounts how he ingratiated himself with Pablo Picasso after World War II and became the confidant of Picasso's least-known, but most important, mistress, Dora Maar. Reprint. IP.
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When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important artists. A Giacometti Portrait is a picture of one of the century's greatest artists at work. James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giamcometti did his portrait in oil. The artist painted, and the model recorded the sittings and took photographs of the work in its various stages. What emerged was an illumination of what it is to be an artist and what it was to be Giacometti--a portrait in prose of the man and his art. A work of great literarydistinction, A Giacometti Portrait is, above all, a subtle and important evocation of a great artist.
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( Commenting upon the nature of friendship, loyalty, patr...)
Commenting upon the nature of friendship, loyalty, patronage, creativity, and moral courage the author explores the lives of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Arletty, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Errieta Perdididi, and Louise Bennett Lord.
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( The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was argua...)
The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt. Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In Mythic Giacometti, Lord reveals the hidden "blueprint" of that work: a daringly literal, visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life. The result is a case study both in the development of an artist and in the writing of biography. Lord concentrates on the private totems of Giacometti's life-family legend, childhood memory, illness and injury, crucial sexual encounters, intimations of mortality-that amounted, in Lord's view, to signs of a tragic destiny directly linked to the central tragedy of Western literature.
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Lord continues his series of enthralling, revealing, and sensitively wrought memoirs with a group of intimate portraits of some of this century's most successful promoters of the arts. Among those profiled are Henry McIlhenny, Isabel Rawsthorne, Peggy Guggenheim, and Ethel Bliss Platt.
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Lord was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up there.
Wesleyan University.
He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. He appeared in the documentary films Balthus Through the Looking Glass (1996) and Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death (2001). His father was a stockbroker, and until the Wall Street crash the family lived, as Mr.
Lord put it, in "the lower echelons of the upper classes".
He served in the United States Army during World World War II, keeping his homosexuality carefully hidden. Lord attended Wesleyan University, though he never earned a degree.
He died in Paris in 2009, aged 86.
(One of the best-known historians of twentieth-century art...)
(Lord continues his series of enthralling, revealing, and ...)
( Commenting upon the nature of friendship, loyalty, patr...)
( When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wa...)
( The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was argua...)
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