The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly and His Bohemian Friends - Couverture souple

Burns, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1934170887 ISBN 13 : 9781934170885

Editeur : Process Media, 2021

Synopsis

The Emphatically Queer Career of Perkins Harnly is the story of a Nebraska-born artist (1901-1986) who over the course of his long-life crossed paths with a staggering array of famous and infamous personalities. He partied with Sarah Bernhardt. Was friends with Paul Swan, a.k.a. 'The Most Beautiful Man in the World,' (who made women swoon when he danced in his tiny leopard-skin tunic). Was the frequent houseguest of Rose O'Neill, the free-living artist who invented the Kewpie. And dedicated correspondent of William Seabrook, author and occasional cannibal who - for better or worse - introduced Americans to the zombie. The story follows Harnly's steps from remote farmlands of Nebraska through silent-era Hollywood, post-revolutionary Mexico, Depression-era New York, wartime Tinsel Town, queer Los Angeles during the repressive 1950s, and in the 1970s. And romping through Europe and South America, where Harnly indulged in his hobby of visiting the graves of the famous and infamous from Vladimir Lenin to Oscar Wilde, Queen Victoria, and Eva Peron. Sarah Burns uses archives of letters and interviews to bring the lives of Harnly and his circle of creative friends whose antics rival the infamous 'bright young things' of England. Once you meet Harnly, you will never forget him.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Burns (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia, 1989); Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (New Haven, 1996); Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004), and (with John Davis) American Art to 1900: A Documentary History (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Process Media
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1934170887
• ISBN 13: 9781934170885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible