9780224062473 - a genius for failure: the life of benjamin robert haydon von o'keeffe, paul (6 Ergebnisse)
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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. * Haydon's first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain. * His second attempt also failed: a deep slash across his throat left a large pool of blood at the entrance to his studio, but he was still able to reac…h his easel on the opposite side of the room. *Only his third attempt, another cut to the throat which sprayed blood across his unfinished canvas, was successful. He died face-down before the bespattered 'Alfred and the First British Jury', his final bid 'to improve the taste of the English people' through the High Art of historical painting.* Such intensity, struggle and near-comic inability to succeed encapsulate Haydon's career. Thirty years before his death his huge, iconic paintings had made him the toast of early 19th-century London, drawing paying crowds to the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly for months and leading to nationwide tours. * However, his attempt to repeat such success three months before his death was to destroy him: barely a soul turned up, leaving the desperate painter alone, humiliated, and facing financial ruin. * In A Genius for Failure Paul O'Keeffe makes clear that the real tragedy of Haydon lay in the extent to which his failures were unwittingly engineered by his own actions - his refusal to resort to the painting of fashionable portraits, for example, and his self-destructively acrimonious relationship with the RA.* The company he kept - Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, among many others - and the momentous events he lived through - The Battle of Waterloo, the Coronation of George IV, and the passing of the first Parliamentary Reform Bill - make A Genius for Failure not only the definitive biography of this fascinating and tragic painter, but a stirring portrayal of an age. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 568 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical re…ferences (pages 545-547) and index. Contents: Machine generated contents note: Lot 343 -- 1. No Stranger to the Muses: 1786-1807 -- 2. Struggles: 1807-1461 -- 3. Triumphs: 1814-21 -- 4. King's Bench, King's Patronage: 1821-30 -- 5. Campaigns: 1830-41 -- 6. Into the Gulf: 1842-6. Subjects: Haydon, Benjamin Robert 1786-1846. Haydon, Benjamin Robert 1786-1846- biography. Painters England; Biography. Painters. England. Genre: Bibliography. Biographies. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Same / next day dispatch (Monday - Friday).
Weitere BilderVerlag: The Bodley Head, 2009
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Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The tragedy of Haydon lay in the extent to which his failures were unwittingly engineered by his own actions - his refusal to resort to the painting of fashionable portraits, for example, and his self…-destructively acrimonious relationship with the RA. Colour plates. 568 pages. SIGNED by author to title page. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. SIGNED - please see description for details.
