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Audrey Hepburn | Donald Spoto usato Storia Contemporanea

Audrey Hepburn | Donald Spoto usato Storia Contemporanea

Nell'immaginario collettivo sarà per sempre la ribelle principessa Anna di Vacanze romane, la frivola Holly Golightly di Colazione da Tiffany, la buffa Eliza Doolittle di My Fair Lady. Per milioni di donne in tutto il mondo rimarrà un modello di eleganza e un'icona di stile. Ma nella realtà, Audrey Hepburn è stata semplicemente, soltanto "Audrey". Ed è proprio così che ci viene presentata in questa biografia: la bambina che durante l'occupazione nazista dell'Olanda, dove trascorse l'infanzia, sognava di danzare sulle punte; l'inquieta adolescente che muoveva i primi, incerti passi sui palcoscenici del West End di Londra; la giovane donna, approdata quasi per caso su un set e diventata nell'arco di pochi mesi una star internazionale, il simbolo di un fascino discreto e tutto nuovo per l'epoca, che non smetteva mai di ripetere con stupore disarmante: "La mia carriera è per me un mistero assoluto". Audrey non si lasciò mai travolgere dagli applausi delle platee di Broadway, né si fece abbagliare dai riflettori di Hollywood, ma rimase sempre fedele a se stessa. Moglie infelice, appassionata dei piccoli-grandi piaceri della vita (e amante di alcuni tra i più celebri interpreti della storia del cinema), ma anche mamma premurosa e professionista instancabile, alla fine degli anni Sessanta, all'apice della carriera, decise di ritirarsi dall'ambiente dello spettacolo per dedicarsi completamente prima alla famiglia, poi al volontariato, diventando ambasciatrice dell'UNICEF.

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Modigliani - A life | Meryle Secrest usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Modigliani - A life | Meryle Secrest usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but not part of their movement. His work was a link between such portraitists as Whistler, Sargent, and Toulouse-Lautrec and that of the Art Deco painters of the 1920s as well as the new approaches of Gauguin, Cézanne, and Picasso. Jean Cocteau called Modigliani “our aristocrat” and said, “There was something like a curse on this very noble boy. He was beautiful. Alcohol and misfortune took their toll on him.” In this major new biography, Meryle Secrest, one of our most admired biographers—whose work has been called “enthralling” (The Wall Street Journal); “rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written” (The New York Review of Books) —now gives us a fully realized portrait of one of the twentieth century's master painters and sculptors: his upbringing, a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished but genteel Italian family; his going to Paris to make his fortune; his striking good looks (“How beautiful he was, my god how beautiful,” said one of his models) . . . his training as an artist . . .and his influences, including the Italian Renaissance, particularly the art of Botticelli; Nietzsche's theories of the artist as Übermensch, divinely endowed, divinely inspired; the monochromatic backgrounds of Van Gogh and Cézanne; the work of the Romanian sculptor Brancusi; and the primitive sculptures of Africa and Oceania with their simplified, masklike triangular faces, elongated silhouettes, puckered lips, low foreheads, and heads on exaggeratedly long necks. We see the ways in which Modigliani's long-kept-secret illness from tuberculosis (it almost killed him as a young man) affected his work and his attitude toward life ; how consumption caused him to embrace fatalism and idealism, creativity and death; and how he used alcohol and opium with laudanum as an antispasmodic to hide the symptoms of the disease and how, because of it, he came to be seen as a dissolute alcoholic. And throughout, we see the Paris that Modigliani lived in, a city in dynamic flux where art was still a noble cause; how Modigliani became part of a life in the streets and a world of art and artists then in a transforming revolution; Monet, Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, et al.—and others more radical—Matisse, Derain, etc., all living within blocks of one another. Secrest's book, written with unprecedented access to letters, diaries, and photographs never before seen, is an extraordinary revelation of a life lived in art . . . Here is Modigliani, the man and the artist, seemingly shy, delicate, a man on a desperate mission, masquerading as an alcoholic, cheating death again and again, and calculating what he had to do in order to go on working and concealing his secret for however much time remained . . .

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