ISBN:
0719557992
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 398 Seiten
Year of publication:
2002
Keywords:
Gertler, Mark
;
Künstler
;
Biografie
Abstract:
For his contemporaries, artist Mark Gertler was a figure of intense fascination. He was the inspiration for the sinister sculptor of D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love; the dashing Byronic hero of Aldous Huxley's "Chrome Yellow; and the egotistical painter of Katherine Mansfield's "Je ne parle pas Franais. Gertler was admired by the leading artists of the day and championed by Henry Moore and the flamboyant Lady Ottoline Morrell. His haunting paintings were keenly collected. Yet, despite his seeming ease in London society, he felt his Jewishness and his working-class background as insuperable barriers, and his artistic ambition gradually alienated him even from the people with whom he had grown up. Finding no happiness, he killed himself at the age of 48. Art historian Sarah MacDougall explores the life of this complex man, whose paintings have lost none of their disturbing eloquence.
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