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Nat Tate: American Artist, 1928-1960 (Hardcover)

by William Boyd (Author), Karen Wright (Editor), Linda Saunders (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 67 pages
  • Publisher: 21 Publishing Ltd (3 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1901785017
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901785012
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 314,824 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and work which can be seen either as straight art biography or as fiction. It is an investigation of the blurry line between the invented and the authentic, the wholly false and the utterly real.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nat Tate never existed, 19 July 2001
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Nat Tate is actually a fictitious character, invented by the author for this fictional biography. An interesting read for that reason alone - more interesting could be an analysis of how the US media and art world was totally taken in, with many living up to the lie and claiming to have known of Tate and his work. A pretty damning indictment of the art world.
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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another masterpiece,more literary but unmistakeable Boyd, 5 Feb 2001
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A break from William Boyds usual rollercoaster not knowing whats going to happen next style,yet still a brilliant piece of work. William Boyd can write anything, after reading this biography I look forward to the possibility of an autobiography by the man himself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars William Boyd's Diversity, 9 Oct 2009
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William Boyd loves writing. His recent book, Bamboo, is a very stimulating account of matters that have interested him through his fascinating life. It is NON-FICTION but every bit as readable as his novels and short stories. The book is large yet the chapters are refeshingly short.

Nat Tate, a modernist artist, is yet another departure from his writing 'norm' - a beautiful little book with enormous appeal. It creates for the reader a character who is fictitious but by skillful narrative and real photographs, leads one into a REAL WORLD of the 1950s American Art scene which includes this particular artist, his background, his contacts, acheivements and sad end. Nat Tate is a spoof and the photos are borrowed from anonymous old postcards etc, unbeknown to the reader. But at the time the book was written and launched a party was given in New York where some of the guests said, (or beleived?) that they had met and known Nat Tate. It was a set-up as an experiment. Are novels beleivable? Of course they are. They can be more real than life itself! Nat Tate is a great little book.

It just highlights for me the skill and creativity of the author who revels in the written word and never disappoints.
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