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S'està carregant… Carrington: A Lifede Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Connections, connections, connections. I am going from one biography to the next, each connected to the one before and the one after through a lover, a sibling, a group like Bloomsbury, type of lifestyle, political affiliation, ancestors and marital connections. The arts, the literati and what most of them have in common is....they were prolific letter writers, journal/diary keepers, they painted each other, they wrote biographies of each other and they gossiped. ( ) My thoughts and comments: I just read a beautiful biography on Dora Carrington entitled "Carrington: A Life" by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. This book was a wonderful study of a fascinating woman who lived on the cusp of the "Bloomsbury Group"; not quite within but not quite without. She was a painter and did mainly stills that are quite different but beautiful. She spent her adult life loving and in love with Lytton Strachey, who was a homosexual. He loved her madly as well, but not romantically. And they continued those feelings right to the end. She did marry but felt very coerced into it. And she had affairs; one of which was with another woman. But I don't believe that she was a lesbian. She just love Strachey so much and couldn't have him romantically. They did share a house and it was quite an open house with other artists & "Bloomsburies" coming and going at all times. If you like bios of artists of any kind and are not turned off by the homosexual aspect (which I was not), I think you would like/love this book. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Because of her Bohemian lifestyle, connection with the Bloomsbury group, her bobbed hair and outspoken views, Dora Carrington seemed to symbolize the new woman of the 20th century. This is a portrait of the woman who was once described as a strange wild beast. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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