James Lord Bücher

Die dürren Figuren, die mit ihren überlangen Proportionen eine zerbrechliche Sensibilität ausdrücken, stehen als charakteristische Arbeiten für Alberto Giacomettis Werk und haben maßgeblich die Entwicklung der Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert beeinflusst. Dieser Band stellt nicht nur das bildhauerische Werk des Schweizer Künstlers vor, sondern widmet sich auch seinen zahlreichen Gemälden, Zeichnungen und Grafiken, die im engen Bezug zu seinen Skulpturen stehen. Ein konzentrierter und gleichzeitig umfassender Einblick in Giacomettis facettenreiche Kunst.

Picasso und Dora Maar handelt von James Lords intensivem, doch ambivalentem Verhätlnis zu dem großen Künstler. Noch bedeutender aber ist die in detaillierter Aufrichtigkeit geschilderte langjährige, vertraute und schwierige Beziehung mit Dora Maar, der Geliebten Picassos, die er gerade im Begriff war zu verlassen, als der junge Soldat die beiden kennenlernte. Dora Maar, eine legendäre zurückgeszogene Gestalt, begabte Fotografin und Malerin, lebt noch heute in der Wohnung und in dem Landhaus, die Picasso ihr vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert zur Verfügung stellte; sie ist zugleich die wichtigste und am wenigsten bekannte Geliebte Picassos. Die sekundären Rollen in dieser lebendigen Schilderung der Pariser Künstlerszene der Nachkriegszeit werden gespielt von Balthus, Jacques Lacan, Andre Masson, Giacometti und zahlreichen anderen.

James Lord came to Paris as a soldier during World War II. He presented himself at Picasso's home and was invited inside. Lord became part of Picasso's circle and met the painter Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress. This book tells of Lord's relationship with them and of Picasso and Dora's relationship.

A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada, California, Boston, England, and, eventually, France and Germany, where he witnesses firsthand the ravages of total war on Europe's land and on its people. Along the way he comes to terms with his own sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man, and in a moment of great rashness makes the acquaintance of the world's most renowned artist, who will show him the way to a new life. My Queer War is a rich and moving record of one man's maturation in the crucible of the greatest war the world has known. If his war is queer, it is because each man's experience is strange in its own way. His is a story of universal significance and appeal, told by a wry and eloquent observer of the world and of himself.

The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in A Biography --a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In Mythic Giacometti , Lord reveals the hidden "blueprint" of that a daringly literal, visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life. The result is a case study both in the development of an artist and in the writing of biography. Lord concentrates on the private totems of Giacometti's life-family legend, childhood memory,illness and injury, crucial sexual encounters, intimations of mortality-that amounted, in Lord's view, to signs of a tragic destiny directly linked to the central tragedy of Western literature.