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Living Well is the Best Revenge (Paperback)
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Living Well is the Best Revenge (Paperback)
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List price R399
Loot Price R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
You Save R75 (19%)
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First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation
with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best
Revenge is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of
Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American expatriates who formed an
extraordinary circle of friends in France during the 1920s. First
in Paris and then in the seaside town of Antibes, they played host
to a cast of some of the most memorable artists and writers of the
era, including Cole Porter, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Ernest
Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. It was in Paris that
Gerald Murphy first encountered Cubist painting, which prompted him
to embark on an all-too-brief career as a painter--roughly from
1922 to 1929--during which he produced 15 works, seven of which
survive, and every one of which is a unique American modernist
masterpiece. This dazzling phase of work was brought to a close in
1929, when one of the Murphys' sons, Patrick, was diagnosed with
tuberculosis and the family returned to New York. When their second
son, Boath, succumbed to meningitis in 1935, and Patrick's death
followed shortly thereafter in 1937, Murphy hung up his brush.
Despite the brevity of Murphy's oeuvre, the intensity of its
conception and its recently acknowledged status as a crucial
precedent to Pop art have elevated Murphy's reputation
considerably. In 1974, The Museum of Modern Art mounted the first
Gerald Murphy retrospective. Illustrated with nearly 70 photographs
from the Murphys' family album and with a special section on
Murphy's paintings, Living Well presents a fascinating Lost
Generation chronicle as charming and enticing as the couple
themselves.
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