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ROLAND PENROSE: THE LIFE OF A SURREALIST

by James King

Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st. 2016

Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. B/w photos. 328 pages including index.

Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

ISBN: 9781474414500
Stock no. 1830234

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Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface: The Inner Light
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. "Born a Quaker" (1900-1913)
  • 2. "This Fascinating Horror" (1914-1918)
  • 3. A Heretic in Training (1919-1922)
  • 4. Born Again (1922-1931)
  • 5. Insoluble Questions (1932-1935)
  • 6. "Let's Do Something" (1935-1936)
  • 7. The Modern Colossus (1936-1938)
  • 8. Aphrodite in Blue (1936-1938)
  • 9. On The Brink of War (1937-1939)
  • 10. Grim Glory (1939-1945)
  • 11. Post-War Blues (1945-1947)
  • 12. Re-defining Modernism (1946-1953)
  • 13. A Pastoral Retreat (1949-1953)
  • 14. Life with a Virtuoso (1954-1966)
  • 15. The Uninvited Guest (1966-1984)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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