Don Bachardy Hollywood /anglais - Couverture rigide

Don, Bachardy/armiste

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0991341929 ISBN 13 : 9780991341924

Editeur : Glitterati Inc, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

• Hollywood is Don Bachardy's mangum opus, a life's work of portraits that is a vertiable who's who of Hollywood royalty
• It is the only work of Bachardy's paintings currently in print

Don Bachardy is famous not only as a lifelong companion to the late English novelist Christopher Isherwood, but also as a fine art painter and portraitist. Having lived in Hollywood all his life, he has had the opportunity to know and paint many of the city's luminaries. Hollywood is Bachardy's magnum opus, a five-decade retrospective of the artist's portrait drawings and paintings. A stunning compendium of Hollywood's influential actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, costumers, choreographers, composers, columnists, producers, and agents.

Includes portraits of: Charlotte Rampling, Henry Fonda, Mia Farrow, Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Katherine Hepburn, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Andie McDowell, Tom Waits, Madeleine Stowe, Simon Callow, Patrick Swayze, Brooke Shields, Melanie Griffith, Joan Rivers, Stockard Channing, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Streisand, Natalie Wood, Marlene Dietrich, John Gielgud, Gore Vidal, John Huston, Ian McKellen, and many, many more.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Don Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist who resides in Santa Monica, California. His drawings and paintings are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the de Young, San Francisco; the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.; and the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has published nine books of drawings, including two collaborations with Christopher Isherwood. Armistead Maupin (born in 1944) is an esteemed American writer. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976, he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Glitterati Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0991341929
• ISBN 13: 9780991341924
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368