James Lord
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The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. From modest beginnings in a Swiss village, Giacometti went on to flourish in the picturesque milieu of prewar Paris and then to achieve international acclaim in the fifties and sixties. Picasso, Balthus, Samuel Beckett, Stravinsky and Sartre have parts in his story, along with...
2) My queer war
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A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War from the noted memorist and critic.
In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict.
In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada, California, Boston, England, and, eventually,...
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The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.
Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In...
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Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century
Over the course of his life as a friend and confidant of artists and collectors, and as a lover of art himself, James Lord has written some of the best accounts we have of modern aesthetic genius; his biography of Giacometti was widely acclaimed for succeeding, in the words of one reviewer, "in every way as one of the most readable,...
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El relato de la amistad entre Giacometti y Majes Lord llevado al cine por Stanley Tucci. Final Portrait - El arte de la amistad
James Lord llegó a París en 1945 y pronto entró en contacto con numerosos artistas. Alberto Giacometti pintó su retrato en 1964 y el texto que ahora se ofrece es un relato de las dieciocho sesiones de pose, que Lord escribió a partir de sus anotaciones y recuerdos.
"Sin duda —escribe Lord— cualquiera que conozca...
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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[1994]
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English
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With the acute eye and the passion for truth that made his Picasso and Dora both "wickedly perceptive and daring" and "a real work of literature" (The New York Times Book Review), James Lord presents here six extraordinary portraits of women whose character and personal courage left an indelible mark on him. The devotion of Alice B. Toklas to the life she shared with Gertrude Stein; the heroic endurance of the great French actress Arletty, never allowed...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2018]
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English
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"In the 1960s, renowned artist Alberto Giacometti requests for the writer James Lord to become the subject of one of his portraits. Although this seems like an innocent suggestion at first, Lord is quickly drawn into the strange web of Giacometti's beautiful, controversial and difficult world. The portrait sitting becomes so much more than what it seems at face value, and Lord's entire life sits on the precipice due to his association with the wildly...
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"I wish I knew it before" This book is your wish coming true. In just four parts you will get the picture of what it is to start own business. It can serve as a guide to succeed the first hours, days and months of the entrepreneurship. This book captures the moments from the time I signed my resignation papers up to today. The moments are written in a way to be easily graspable and serve as a guide.
The book has four parts:
1. the captain –...
