Hidden Tapestry : Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One

Debra Dean

ISBN 10: 081013683X / ISBN 13: 9780810136830

Verlag: Univ Of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Apr 2018, 2018

Beschreibung

Neuware - In Hidden Tapestry, best-selling author Debra Dean reveals the astonishing untold story of artist Jan Yoors: traveling with a Roma family, fighting with the French Resistance, and living as a polyamorous bohemian in midcentury New York City.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780810136830

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Hidden Tapestry : Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One
• Verlag: Univ Of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Apr 2018
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 081013683X
• ISBN-13: 9780810136830
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 225B x 149 H x 19 T Millimeter Breite: 225 mm, Höhe: 149 mm, Tiefe: 19 mm
• Gewicht: 904 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of Flemish American artist Jan Yoors-childhood vagabond, wartime Resistance fighter, and polyamorous New York bohemian. At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, Yoors's photographs and vast tapestries inspired a dedicated following in his adopted Manhattan and earned him international acclaim. Though his intimate friends guessed the rough outline of his colorful life, Hidden Tapestry is first to detail his astonishing secrets.

At twelve, Jan's life took an extraordinary and unexpected turn when, lured by stories of Gypsies, he wandered off with a group of Roma and continued to live on-and-off with them and with his own family for several years. As an adult in German-occupied France, Yoors joined the Resistance and persuaded his adoptive Roma family to fight alongside him. Defying repeated arrests and torture by the Gestapo, he worked first as a saboteur and later escorted Allied soldiers trapped behind German lines across the Pyrenees to freedom.

After the war, he married childhood friend Annabert van Wettum and embarked on his career as an artist. When a friend of Annabert's, Marianne Citroen, modeled for Yoors, the two began an affair, which led the three to form a polyamorous family that would last for the rest of their lives. Moving to New York, the trio became part of the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in the 1950s.

Told in arresting detail by Debra Dean, best-selling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, Yoors's story is a luminous and inspiring account of resilience, resourcefulness, and love.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Debra Dean is the best-selling author of a short-story collection and two novels, The Mirrored World and The Madonnas of Leningrad―the latter a New York Times Editors’ Choice and #1 Booksense Pick. She lives in Miami and teaches at Florida International University.