Conradi, Peter J.:
Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography - Erstausgabe
2010, ISBN: 9780006531753
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
Great Britain: Harper Collins, 2004. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_clothspine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25". 370 pgs. 1st Printing. Cream boards. Chocolate spine w/gilt … Mehr…
Great Britain: Harper Collins, 2004. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_clothspine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25". 370 pgs. 1st Printing. Cream boards. Chocolate spine w/gilt letters. DJ design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. Jacket painting c Robert Newcombe/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Book designed by Barbara Bachman. Includes bibliographical references and index. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Printer ink line on backside of first fly paper. Minor edge and shelf wear. Author's first book. "She was born on a bitterly cold December night in 1626 and, in the candlelight, mistakenly declared a boy. On her father's death six years later, she inherited the Swedish throne. She was tutored by Descartes, yet could swear like the roughest soldier. She was painted a lesbian, a prostitute, a hermaphrodite, and an atheist; in that tumultuous age, it is hard to determine which was the most damning label. She was learned but restless, progressive yet self-indulgent; her leadership was erratic, her character unpredictable. Sweden was too narrow for her ambition. No sooner had she enjoyed the lavish celebrations of her officialcoronation at twenty-three than she abdicated, converting to Catholicism (an act of almost foolhardy independence and political challenge) and leaving her cold homeland behind for an extravagant new life in Rome. Christina, Queen of Sweden, longed fatally for adventure. Freed from her crown, Christina cut a breath-taking path across Europe: spending madly, searching for a more prestigious throne to scale, stirring trouble wherever she went. Supported and encouraged in turn by the pope, the king of Spain, and France's powerful Cardinal Mazarin, Christina settled at the luxurious Palazzo Farnese, where she established a lavish salon for Rome's artists and intellectuals. More than once the cross-dressing queen was forced to leave town until a scandal died down. She loved to buckle on a sword and swagger like the men whose company she adored, but the greatest mystery in her life was the true nature of her elusive sexuality, which biographer Veronica Buckley explores with sensitivity and rigor. For a time it seemed there was nothing this extraordinary woman might fear attempting, until a bloody tragedy of her own making foreshadowed her downfall. Pairing painstaking research with a sparkling narrative voice and unerring sense of the age, Veronica Buckley reclaims a protean life that had been preserved mostly as myth. Christina was a child of her time, and her time was one of great change: Europe stood at a crossroads where religion and science, antiquity and modernity, peace and war all met. Christina took what she wanted from each to create the life she most desired, and she dazzled all who met her." Goodreads 3.43., Harper Collins, 2004, 4, London and New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1990. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: A portrait and the artist; Pageantry and paradox; The company of artists; Scandal; Secession; The artist as god; Life as art; Another rebellion; Portrait and personality; The eternal feminine; The pattern of landscape; The final years.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo., Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1990, 5, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. xxiii, 237 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "J. Paul Getty bought his first classical antiquity -- a small terracotta sculpture -- at auction in London in 1939. Over the next four decades, he became a passionate collector, and in the 1950s he created a trust for 'the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge.' Building on that early foundation, successive antiquities curators at the Getty Museum have amassed a collection that now contains more than fifty thousand ancient objects. In lively prose accompanied by a full-color photograph of each object, this handbook of the antiquities collection presents nearly two hundred of the Getty Museum's most important pieces. Spanning thousands of years as far back as the third millennium B.C. through the third century A.D.--the Getty antiquities collection encompasses Cycladic, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman, and Romano-Egyptian cultures. It includes one of the finest assemblages of ancient Greek vases in the United States; monumental marble sculptures and diminutive bronzes; Greek and Roman gems; and Hellenistic silverware, jewelry, and glass. / Deborah Gribbon is museum director. Marion True is antiquities curator." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook., J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002, 5, Cologne: Taschen, 2007. 95 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Half monk, half artist: the beginnings in Holland, 1881-1885; Apprenticeship years in Paris: Antwerp and Paris, 1885-1888; The explosion of color: Arles, 1888-1889; Painting as life: Saint-Remy and Auvers, 1889-1890; Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890: life and works.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo., Taschen, 2007, 5, London England: HarperCollins. Softcover Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation. Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S.Byatt notes, she is 'absolutely central to our culture'. As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, her life has significance for our age. There is a recognisable Murdoch world, and the adjective 'Murdochian' has entered the language to describe situations where a small group of people interract intricately and strangely. Her story is as emotionally fascinating as that of Virginia Woolf, but far less well known; hers has been an adventurous, highly eventful life, a life of phenomenal emotional and intellectual pressures, and her books portray a real world which is if anything toned down as well as mythicised. For Iris's formative years, astonishingly, movingly and intimately documented by Conradi's meticulous research, were spent among the leading European and British intellectuals who fought and endured World War II, and her life like her books, was full of the most extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of that turbulent time and after. Peter Conradi was very close to both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, Iris's husband, whose memoir of their life together has itself been the subject of an enormous amount of attention and acclaim. This will be an extraordinarily full biography, for there are vast resources in diaries and papers and friends' recollections, and while it is a superlative biography it is also a superb history of a generation who have profoundly influenced our world today.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Softcover/Cloth. 1st Paperback Edition. 2010., HarperCollins, 2010, 3<
