Beryl Bainbridge: Artist, Writer, Friend - Couverture rigide

Hughes, Psiche

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500516510 ISBN 13 : 9780500516515

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This book is a highly personal, chronological account of Beryls life and work both her writing and her painting and provides a vivid first-hand portrait of this free-spirited and uniquely talented woman. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters. Less well known is that painting and drawing were also lifelong passions, and a source of income too in the days before her success as a writer. Most of all she painted people friends, lovers, her children, invented characters, characters from her novels, or historical figures (she had a particular fascination for Napoleon). She had no formal training, but developed an exuberance of technique to match her imagination. The paintings, as one of her many friends observes, are like Beryl herself: irreverent, funny and highly original. Psiche Hughes was a close friend of Beryl Bainbridge from the early 1960s to the latters death in 2010.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Psiche Hughes was a close friend of Beryl Bainbridge's for over 40 years. In 2004 she compiled, edited and translated a volume of short stories by Latin American Women called Violations. Since retiring as a lecturer from London University in 1999, she worked in ceramics and exhibited at the HQ gallery in Lewes and at the Francis Kyle Gallery.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500516510
• ISBN 13: 9780500516515
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible