ROLAND PENROSE: THE LIFE OF A SURREALIST
Written by James King
Published by Edinburgh University Press
in 2016
ISBN: 9781474414500
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ROLAND PENROSE: THE LIFE OF A SURREALIST
Written by James King.
Stock no. 1830234
1st.
2016.
Hardback.
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. ISBN: 9781474414500. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
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