Gluck - Her Biography

Zusatztext 'A quiet triumph' Publishing News! Book of the Year. Informationen zum Autor Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island, her biography of Alexander Selkirk, or as he is better known, Robinson Crusoe. 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: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 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