Oscar Wildes Italian Dream 1875 1900

Author : Renato Miracco
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862087148
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900 written by Renato Miracco and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy as a haven of gay liberty: a grand tour with Oscar Wilde, featuring previously unseen photographs and archival materials In Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900, leading Wilde scholar Renato Miracco combines written research with previously unseen visual material ranging from Wilde's earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to recently released court documents from his trial and his final days in France and Italy in 1900, after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, and his voluntary exile from Britain. Italy, and the larger world beyond London, was essential to the sensitivity and awareness of Wilde's identity, his contributions to prison reform and his challenges to social norms and sexual stereotypes in his last years. It also offered a great deal of sexual liberty compared to the oppressive moral atmosphere of England at that time. The previously unseen images Miracco has incorporated in this volume (including photos that Wilde received from the gay German photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden) are mainly from private collections, and together with letters, reminiscences and magazine and newspaper articles (along with derogatory articles about Wilde from the Italian press) they play a key role in placing Wilde's character, and an entire generation, in a complex context. Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900is a major addition to the canon of one of the world's greatest literary figures. Renato Miracco(born 1953) is an Italian art critic and curator. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for Cultural Achievements in 2018. He served as Cultural Attaché for the Italian Embassy in Washington from 2010 to 2018 and as advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy. Miracco has curated major exhibitions for Tate Modern in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and London's Estorick Collection. His passion for Wilde dates from the early 1980s when he wrote his first essay on Wilde's time in Italy. This new book on Wilde is based on new materials that Miracco has found over the last few years.

Author : Wilhelm von Gloeden
Publisher : Art Stock Books Limited/Csi
ISBN 13 : 9788863020045
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilhelm Von Gloeden written by Wilhelm von Gloeden and published by Art Stock Books Limited/Csi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 19th century a group of photographers, so exceptional as to form a singular elite

Author : Wilhelm von Gloeden
Publisher : Heretic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780907040750
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taormina written by Wilhelm von Gloeden and published by Heretic Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilhelm von Baron Gloeden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918696038
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photographs of the Classic Male Nude written by Wilhelm von Baron Gloeden and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Omar Sharif
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640095586
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Omars written by Omar Sharif and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery . . . Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and homophobia, this is an essential book that shines a much-needed light on the intersection of Arab and queer identity." —Abdi Nazemian, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father’s side and Holocaust survivors on his mother’s, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents’ Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When, in the wake of the Arab Spring, he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The Advocate, he knew his life would forever change. What he didn’t expect was the backlash that followed. From bullying, to illness, attempted suicide, becoming a victim of sex trafficking, death threats by the thousands, revolution and never being able to return to a country he once called home, Omar Sharif Jr. has overcome more challenges than one might imagine. Drawing on the lessons he learned from both sides of his family, A Tale of Two Omars charts the course of an iconoclastic life, revealing in the process the struggles and successes that attend a public journey of self-acceptance and a life dedicated in service to others.

Author : Paul R. Deslandes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680531X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain written by Paul R. Deslandes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heavily illustrated history of two centuries of male beauty in British culture. Spanning the decades from the rise of photography to the age of the selfie, this book traces the complex visual and consumer cultures that shaped masculine beauty in Britain, examining the realms of advertising, health, pornography, psychology, sport, and celebrity culture. Paul R. Deslandes chronicles the shifting standards of male beauty in British culture—from the rising cult of the athlete to changing views on hairlessness—while connecting discussions of youth, fitness, and beauty to growing concerns about race, empire, and degeneracy. From earlier beauty show contestants and youth-obsessed artists, the book moves through the decades into considerations of disfigured soldiers, physique models, body-conscious gay men, and celebrities such as David Beckham and David Gandy who populate the worlds of television and social media. Deslandes calls on historians to take beauty and gendered aesthetics seriously while recasting how we think about the place of physical appearance in historical study, the intersection of different forms of high and popular culture, and what has been at stake for men in “looking good.”

Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679754768
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farewell Symphony written by Edmund White and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections--and near misses--slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, full of unsparingly trenchant social observation yet infused with wisdom and a deeply felt compassion, The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years--the crowning achievement of one of our finest writers.

Author : Anastasia Belina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107182166
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Operetta written by Anastasia Belina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.

Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525656367
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Matthew Sturgis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810961814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Artists Books written by Riva Castleman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.