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Richly illustrated, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDesperately Young\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents prime examples of each artist's work, demonstrating how our cultural heritage is just a little narrower for their loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Europe to America to Japan and the Indian Subcontinent, the mid 1400s to the late 20th century, this book hails the acknowledged greats and introduces those who died before they could leave an indelible mark on history. 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New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCirque Calder,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe second volume begins during World War II, when Calder and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to the stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. 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But how did they turn relatively short careers into such long legacies? \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhat drove them to create, against all the odds?\u003c\/span\u003e And how can we use these stories to\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e re-evaluate artists lost to the shadows, or whose legacies are not yet secured? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost artists have decades to hone their craft, win over the critics and forge their reputation, but that’s not the case for the artists in this book. Art heavyweights \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eVincent van Gogh\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJean-Michel Basquiat\u003c\/span\u003e have been \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emythologised\u003c\/span\u003e, with their early deaths playing a key role in their posthumous fame. Others, such as \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAubrey Beardsley\u003c\/span\u003e and Noah Davis, were driven to create, knowing their time was limited. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor some, premature death, compounded by \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003egender and racial injustice\u003c\/span\u003e, meant being left out of the history books – as was the case with \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAmrita Sher-Gil\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCharlotte Salomon\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePauline Boty\u003c\/span\u003e, now championed by Kate Bryan in this important re-appraisal. 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Bryan’s wide ranging assessment of artists we lost too soon proves that longevity in art is rewarded to the stars that burn the brightest, however fleeting their lives and careers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e – Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKate Bryan marshals a wealth of fascinating detail about artists’s lives cut sadly short … and in sprightly prose brings their work vividly to life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e – Joan Bakewell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Artists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKeith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Caravaggio, Dash Snow, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Francesca Woodman, Ana Mendieta, Félix González-Torres, Raphael, Yves Klein, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Egon Schiele, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Amrita Sher-Gil, Johannes Vermeer, Robert Smithson, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, Noah Davis, Eva Hesse, Charlotte Salomon, Umberto Boccioni, Gerda Taro, Joanna Mary Boyce, Pauline Boty, Helen Chadwick, Khadija Saye, Bartholomew Beal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43875495903490,"sku":"BK-FRL-BSGA-001-R","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_9071_d3e3dc7b-e8fd-4cb2-8bc8-8b71cd1c07a9.jpg?v=1695639155"},{"product_id":"this-is-cezanne-1","title":"This is Cézanne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJorella Andrews \u0026amp; Patrick Vale \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover | \u003c\/span\u003e17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaurence King | 2015 | 9781780674780\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Cézanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. 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For others, he is a film star thinker who covered every possible subject from literature, politics, and language. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-expanded=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-expanded=\"false\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Algiers, the young Jackie, named after a character in a Chaplin movie, only to change to Jacques once he moved to Paris, was always an outsider. Here, despite an obvious genius, he found it difficult to find himself. However, in 1967, he changed the whole course of philosophy in one go: with the development of the ideas of deconstruction. 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