Books written by James Lord
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Giacometti: A Biography
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Six Exceptional Women: Further Memoirs
James Lord continues his series of intimate portraits with a cast of female subjects: Alice B. Toklas, Getrude Stein, Marie-Laure de Noailles, the French actress Arletty, Errieta Perdikidi, and his own mother, Loise Bennett Lord.
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Giacometti: A Biography
In one of his earliest works, Beckett speaks of the “morbid dread of sphinxes.” Such a dread was apparently a real and active aspect of his imaginative life, for the theme of impotence recurs throughout his work, coupled with the motif ...
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Plausible Portraits of James Lord: With Commentary by the Model
Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century Over the course of his life as a friend and confidant of artists and collectors, and as a lover of art himself, James Lord ...
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A Giacometti Portrait
The creative process that produces a work of art is illuminated as Lord documents through photographs and descriptions the stages by which Alberto Giacometti painted his portrait in oil
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My Queer War
A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict.
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Plausible Portraits of James Lord: With Commentary by the Model
The author looks at portraits of himself by such artists as Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti, describing the circumstances surrounding the creation of each portrait and his experiences as a model.
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Mythic Giacometti
In Mythic Giacometti, Lord reveals the hidden "blueprint" of that work: a daringly literal, visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life.
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Mythic Giacometti
... because, as he had said, he had certainly done everything he could in order to come to that end, blinded by a fate which had been settled before his birth. ALSO BY JAMES LORD Plausible Portraits of James Lord Stories.
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Six Exceptional Women: Further Memoirs
Commenting upon the nature of friendship, loyalty, patronage, creativity, and moral courage the author explores the lives of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Arletty, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Errieta Perdididi, and Louise Bennett Lord.