Gluck - Her Biography

Zusatztext 'A quiet triumph' Publishing News! Book of the Year. Informationen zum Autor Diana Souhami is the author of Selkirk's Island (winner of the Whitbread Biography award), The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year'). Her latest book is Murder at Wrotham Hill. She lives in London and Devon. Klappentext Classic account of the life of an extraordinary woman and an undervalued artist. A Personal Note. 'Gluck, no prefix, no quotes'. REBELLION 1895-1936: 'The Family'. Stage and country. Bolton House. White Flowers. The Gluck Frame. LOVE 1936-1944: 'YouWe'. Roots and brambles. Blaze with a fire. The Queen wore peacock blue. 'the brind and the wheeze'. The war effort. The war within. THE FACTS OF LIFE 1945-1978: The eternal triangle. Yeats's bones. Cosmic injustice. The paint war. Lacuna. A retrospective view. The dying of the light. Afterword. Notes. Bibliography. Works Illustrated. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Souhami, Souhami Diana
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9781780878881
• ISBN: 978-1-78087-888-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Biography: arts and entertainment, Paintings and painting