Francis Booth

Everybody I Can Think Of Ever: Meetings That Made The Avant Garde (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How do you get from Igor Stravinsky to Elvis Presley via Benny Goodman and the King of Thailand? From Henry Miller to Patti Smith via Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass? Ezra Pound to Coco Chanel via Shakespeare and Company? James Joyce's daughter to Peggy Guggenheim via Samuel Beckett? How did the most beautiful woman in the world come to design a radio-controlled missile with the bad boy of music? Did Jackson Pollock learn his drip technique from the man who tried to assassinate Trotsky? Did Stalin turn the inventor of electronic music into a Soviet spy?

This book tells the stories sometimes unlikely but always fascinating of first meetings between members of the twentieth century avant-garde, who were all connected to each other in a complex web of relationships; stories of how the artistic baton was passed from the past to the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wu Wei Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227874252
• Artikelnr.: 72342305

Autorenporträt

As well as Everybody I Can Think Of Ever Francis Booth is the author of several books on twentieth century culture:

• Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1960 (published by Dalkey Archive);
• No Direction Home: The Uncanny In Literature
• Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in Mid-20th Century Women's Fiction
• A Girl Named Vera Can Never Tell a Lie: The Novels of Vera Caspary
• Text Acts: Literary Eroticism Since 1900
• Comrades in Art: Revolutionary Art in America 1926-1938

Francis is also the author of two novel series:

• The Code 17 series, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s and featuring aristocratic spy Lady Laura Summers
• Young adult fantasy series The Watchers