The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Hardcover

Richardson, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375400338 ISBN 13: 9780375400339

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999

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Book by Richardson John

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The story of Douglas Cooper--the brilliant, controversial art expert and collector who assembled the world's most important private collection of cubist paintings--is told for the first time, with details on Cooper's relationship with Picasso and other great artists of the period. 25,000 first printing.

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son brings the same dazzling narrative style to this memoir as he did to Volumes I and II of A Life of Picasso. Robert Hughes called the second volume "a masterpiece in the making, the most illuminating biography yet written on a twentieth-century visual artist and the only one that can sustain comparison with Painter on Proust, Ellman on Joyce, or Edel on Henry James"; he also praised Richardson's "crispness of writing" and "impressive eye for the offbeat or scandalous detail." All these qualities conspire to make The Sorcerer's Apprentice a brilliant and fascinating chronicle.

This book is a sharply etched portrait of Douglas Cooper, the colorful Evelyn Waugh-like figure who single-handedly assembled the world's most important private cubist collection. It is also the story of Cooper and Richardson's association, which began in 1949 and came to fruition -- and ultimately disaster -- at the Chateau de Castille, the eighteenth-centur

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375400338
• ISBN 13: 9780375400339
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318