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Item Details
| Title:
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
A LIFE OF DECO AND DECADENCE |
| By: |
LAURA CLARIDGE |
| Format: |
paperback (B format) |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
074755224X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780747552246 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
5 March, 2001 |
| Edition: |
NEW ED |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Born in 1899 to Russian aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men and women she painted. This book looks at her artistic accomplishments and her amorous adventures. |
| Synopsis: |
Born in 1899 to Russian aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men and women she painted. After burning brightly at the centre of Paris's artistic circle, she made her way to America in the late 1930s, where she dazzled and seduced the rich and famous of a new continent. Her paintings, like the artist herself, glow with beauty and sexuality. Contemporary critics, however, dismissed her gorgeously stylised portraits and condemned her scandalous lifestyle. A resurgence of interest in her work occurred in the 1980's, spurred by such celebrity collectors as Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand, and Madonna. In this meticulously researched, absorbing biography, Laura Claridge explores Lempicka's artistic accomplishments, her amorous adventures, and the critical judgements that at first excluded her from artistic recognition. |
| Illustrations: |
ILLUSTRATIONS, (SOME COLOUR ), PORTRAITS |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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