The Unexpurgated Beaton - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0297645994 ISBN 13: 9780297645993

Casa editrice: W&N, 2002

Riassunto

Although in his lifetime Cecil Beaton - royal photographer and theatrical designer - published six short volumes of his diaries he was shy hurting the feelings of those he wrote about. Hugo Vickers has gone back to the originals to produce the Beaton diaries as they were written. Beaton records a vigorous social life among hostesses such as Emerald Cunard and Sybil Colefax, performers including Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn (on the not wholly successful Alan Jay Lerner-Andre Previn musical, COCO) and Marlene Dietrich, as well as artists from Cocteau and Picasso to Bacon and the young Hockney. Running through the diaries are his friendships with the Queen Mother, with Diana Cooper and Greta Garbo. In the unexpurgated edition Vickers shows what Beaton really had to say about those with whom he worked. He could be waspish, even brutal. His diaries are frank and uninhibited.

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Descrizione del libro:

Cecil Beaton's Diaries - one of the 20th century's great social histories - in unexpurgated form for the first time.

L'autore:

Hugo Vickers is a biographer, lecturer and broadcaster, specialising in the twentieth century. His most recent biography, of the Duke of Edinburgh's mother, Princess Andrew of Greece, was published in 2000. His book, The Kiss, won the Stern Silver Pen for Non-Fiction in 1996. Vickers was invited to become Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer in 1979, and two days after he started work Beaton died. His biography was published in 1985 and has just been reissued for the sixth time. Since 1987, he has served as Beaton's literary executor. He is retained by ITN as its royalty consultant. Hugo Vickers is married and lives in Hampshire with his wife and three children.

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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0297645994
• ISBN 13: 9780297645993
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Redattore: Vickers Introduced By Hugo