Uglow Jenny Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense 9780374113339

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Автор: Uglow Jenny
Название: Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
ISBN: 9780374113339
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Классификация:

Автобиографии деятелей искусств и развлечений

ISBN-10: 0374113335
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 544
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 17.04.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 155 x 41
Поставляется из: США
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A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow

Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present. He was a man in a hurry, running about on railroads from London to country estates and boarding steamships to Italy, Corfu, India, and Palestine. He is still loved for his nonsenses, from startling, joyous limericks to great love poems like The Owl and the Pussy Cat and The Dong with a Luminous Nose, and he is famous, too, for his brilliant natural history paintings, landscapes, and travel writing. But although Lear belongs solidly to the age of Darwin and Dickens--he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons, and his many friends included Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters--his genius for the absurd and his dazzling wordplay make him a very modern spirit. He speaks to us today.

Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm--children adored him--yet his humor masked epilepsy, depression, and loneliness. Jenny Uglows beautifully illustrated biography, full of the color of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships, and restless travels. Above all, Mr. Lear shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of rules and structures, disciplines and desires--an exile of the heart.

Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, Uglow Jenny