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Author : Harold Acton
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Aesthete written by Harold Acton and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1948 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book More Memoirs of an Aesthete written by Harold Acton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)
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Author : Harold Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1939-1969 written by Harold Acton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andre Bernard
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0446931268
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes written by Andre Bernard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.
Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Prince of Aesthetes written by Philippe Jullian and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1968 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a man and his eternal search for Beauty.
Author : Harold Mario Mitchell Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Aesthete written by Harold Mario Mitchell Acton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Emil Mungello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442215577
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Western Queers in China written by David Emil Mungello and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D.E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to China and in the process influenced perceptions of Chinese culture to this day. This escapism engendered casual sexual encounters, serious friendships, and substantive intellectual rela.
Author : Frederic Spotts
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781468316711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics written by Frederic Spotts and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again, the classic, unprecedented look at how the strategies and ideals of the Third Reich were informed by Adolf Hitler's artistic aspirations. "Grimly fascinating . . . A book that will rightly find its place among the central studies of Nazism. . . . Invaluable." --The New York Times
Author : Kristin Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100902244X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Queer Kinship after Wilde written by Kristin Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-siècle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.
Author : Ben Sonnenberg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374234
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Lost Property written by Ben Sonnenberg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and hilarious memoir of privilege and excess told by the son of a powerful, seductive member of the New York elite. Ben Sonnenberg grew up in the great house on Gramercy Park in New York City that his father, the inventor of modern public relations and the owner of a fine collection of art, built to celebrate his rise from the poverty of the Jewish Lower East Side to a life of riches and power. His son could have what he wanted, except perhaps what he wanted most: to get away. Lost Property, a book of memoirs and confessions, is a tale of youthful riot and rebellion. Sonnenberg recounts his aesthetic, sexual, and political education, and a sometimes absurd flight into “anarchy and sabotage,” in which he reports to both the CIA and East German intelligence during the Cold War and, cultivating a dandy’s nonchalance, pursues a life of sexual adventure in 1960s London and New York. The cast of characters includes Orson Welles, Glenn Gould, and Sylvia Plath; among the subjects are marriage, children, infidelity, debt, divorce, literature, and multiple sclerosis. The end is surprisingly happy.
Author : Harold Mario Mitchell Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Aesthete written by Harold Mario Mitchell Acton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis Harrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937112073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood written by Curtis Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood is a fast-paced view of Harrington's journey through the kaleidoscope of the movie business, acting alternatively as personal memoir and cultural history from a veteran of thee entertainment business. In addition, Harrington was living as a gay man in Hollywood and the book gives a rare peek into the hidden world of what was then an elite subculture. Starting in 1940s avant-garde heyday, harrington made several deeply intuitive and evocative films. Against all odds, he then became a Hollywood insider.
Author : Harold Mario Mitchell Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)
Download or read book More Memoirs of an Aesthete written by Harold Mario Mitchell Acton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agnes Humbert
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408801620
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Resistance written by Agnes Humbert and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Agnès Humbert bears devastating witness to her time ... An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William Boyd 'Sober and testifying, sardonic and humorous ... A beautiful and powerful work of literature' The Times In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnès Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. She had no experience in warfare: she was an art historian, as were most of her early comrades, colleagues from the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. All they had was an unquenchable desire to free their country from the horrors of Nazi occupation. Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape and passing military information back to London. Then came the catastrophe of betrayal, followed by arrest and interrogation, imprisonment and trial and, for Agnès, deportation to slave labour camp in Germany. Résistance is the secret journal of a woman who never gave up hope, even in the face of impossible odds.
Author : Susan Blumberg-Kason
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Bernardine's Shanghai Salon written by Susan Blumberg-Kason and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and place like no other. Political intrigue and scandal lurked on every street corner. Art Deco cinemas showed the latest Hollywood flicks, while dancehall owners and jazz musicians turned Shanghai into Asia’s top nightlife destination. Yet from the night of their wedding, Bernardine’s new husband did not live up to his promises. Instead of feeling sorry for herself or leaving Shanghai, Bernardine decided to make a place for herself. Like other Jewish women before her, she started a salon in her home, drawing famous names from the world of politics, the arts, and the intelligentsia. She introduced Emily Hahn, the charismatic opium-smoking writer for The New Yorker, to the flamboyant hotelier Sir Victor Sassoon and legendary poet Sinmay Zau. And when Hollywood stars Anna May Wong, Charlie Chaplin, and Claudette Colbert passed through Shanghai, Bernardine organized gatherings to introduce them to their Shanghai contemporaries. When Bernardine’s salon could not accommodate all who wanted to attend, she founded the International Arts Theater to produce avant-garde plays, ballets, lectures, and visual arts exhibits, often pushing audiences beyond their comfort zones. As civil war brewed and World War II soon followed, Bernardine’s devotion to the arts and the people of Shanghai brought joy to the city just before it would change forever.
Author : Patricia Hampl
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054735083X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Blue Arabesque written by Patricia Hampl and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are “a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Hampl’s meditation takes us to the Cote d’Azur and to North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisse’s portraits of languid women, she discovers they were not decorative indulgences but something much more. Moving with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque is Hampl’s dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.
