- Paperback: 752 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New ed of 2 Revised ed edition (5 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099333015
- ISBN-13: 978-0099333012
- Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 13.3 x 19 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 346,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The rvised and updated biography of the British painter, drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's first edition in 1974, revealing the complete story of John and his circle, from one of the greatest modern biographers. Born in Tenby in 1878, Augustus John studied at the Slade with his sister Gwen, and in Paris. He lived a passionate and unruly life and died in 1961. Using new material, new correspondence and drawing on numerous new studies of Gwen John, Eplstein and others, Michael Holroyd can now tell the full and true stories behind the life of this archetypal bohemian and artist-reprobate. Proto-feminist subplots involving Gwen, Ida and Dorelia John (his wife) also bring the book thoroughly up to date for the 1990s reader.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I haven't read this yet but my wife says it is gripping. BUT this edition is poorly printed compared with its predecessor, from page images rather than typeset,I would imagine, and the photos are poorer quality than in the previous edition too.
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Biograpphy or Dictionary?
30 Jan 2000
Format:Hardcover
In many ways an admirable book and Holroyd writes with elegance, knowledge and wit. He, however, follows the recent trend in biography by feeling it necessary to retail every tiny tidbit he has discovered about John. Long letters are printed, for example, when the relevant information could be capsulized in five words. The reader is finally distracted by the sheer volume of inconsequential material and the overwhelming feeling that the author doesn't believe that the reader can follow where he is going without constant, constant reinforcement. The book edges toward a sixth grade account of the summer at camp in which logical development is snowed under and beautiful writing obscured by detail.
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