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- catalog abstract "This volume is a biography of Welsh painter Augustus John (1878-1961). In the early part of the 1900s, he was an important practitioner of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. By the age of 20 he had won a reputation for his brilliant drawing technique. Here he soon emerged as a bohemian figure as well as a highly gifted artist. The need to support Ida Nettleship (1877-1907), whom he married in 1901, led him to accept a post teaching art at the University of Liverpool. John Sampson, then University Librarian and an acknowledged expert on gypsies, became a friend and a major influence on him, introducing him to the Romany language and way of life. This led him to spend periods traveling with his growing family in gypsy caravans through Wales and England and inspired much of his work before World War I, including a series of etchings depicting gypsy life. He is best known for his portraits of leading European personalities, including those of James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw.".
- catalog contributor b9793110.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Appendix 6: John's pictures at the Royal Academy -- Appendix 7: Augustus John : chronology and intinerary -- Appendix 8: Locations of John manuscripts.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This volume is a biography of Welsh painter Augustus John (1878-1961). In the early part of the 1900s, he was an important practitioner of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. By the age of 20 he had won a reputation for his brilliant drawing technique. Here he soon emerged as a bohemian figure as well as a highly gifted artist. The need to support Ida Nettleship (1877-1907), whom he married in 1901, led him to accept a post teaching art at the University of Liverpool. John Sampson, then University Librarian and an acknowledged expert on gypsies, became a friend and a major influence on him, introducing him to the Romany language and way of life. This led him to spend periods traveling with his growing family in gypsy caravans through Wales and England and inspired much of his work before World War I, including a series of etchings depicting gypsy life. He is best known for his portraits of leading European personalities, including those of James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw.".
- catalog description "pt. 1: The years of innocence. 1. Little England beyond Wales. 'Mama's dead!' -- The responsible parties -- Life with Father -- A crisis of identity -- 2. 'Slade School ingenious'. New students -- old masters -- Water-legend -- A singular group -- Flammondism -- From among the living. . . -- . .into 'moral living' -- 3. Love for art's sake. Evil at work -- Liverpool sheds and Romany flotsam -- What comes naturally -- Team spirit -- Candid white and matching green -- 4. Men must play and women weep. Keeping up the game -- At the crossroads -- From a view to a birth -- Channel crossing -- A seaside change -- 'Here's to love!' -- 5. Buffeted by fate. The battle of the babies -- Images of Yeats -- All boys brave and beautiful -- Or something -- Ethics and rainbows -- In laws and outlaws -- In the roving line -- Fatal initiations -- Italian style, French found -- 6. Revolution 1910. What they said at the time -- What he said -- What he said about them -- What happened -- What next? -- ".
- catalog description "pt. 2 : the years of experience. 7. Before the deluge. A summer of poetry -- The second Mrs. Strindberg -- Cavaliers and eggheads -- Chronic potential -- 8. How he got on. Marking time -- The Virgin's prayer -- Corrupt coteries -- Augustus does his bit -- 9. Artist of the portraits. Everybody's doing it -- Surviving friends, women and children : an A to Z -- Faces and tales -- Methods and places -- Undiscovered countries -- 10. The way they lived then. Fryern Court -- A long love affair with drink -- In spite of everything or because of it -- His fifties, their thirties -- Children of the great -- Barren our lives -- 11. Things past. Black out -- Fragments -- The morning after -- A way out -- Appendix 1: Desecration of Saint Paul's -- Appendix 2: John's pictures at the New English Art Club -- Appendix 3: The Chelsea Art School prospectus -- Appendix 4: 'To Iris Tree' : a parody of Arthur Symons -- Appendix 5: The John Beauty chorus -- ".
- catalog extent "xxxiii, 715 p., [20] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0374102554 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "759.2 B 20".
- catalog subject "John, Augustus, 1878-1961.".
- catalog subject "ND497.J6 H64 1996".
- catalog subject "Painters Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Appendix 6: John's pictures at the Royal Academy -- Appendix 7: Augustus John : chronology and intinerary -- Appendix 8: Locations of John manuscripts.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1: The years of innocence. 1. Little England beyond Wales. 'Mama's dead!' -- The responsible parties -- Life with Father -- A crisis of identity -- 2. 'Slade School ingenious'. New students -- old masters -- Water-legend -- A singular group -- Flammondism -- From among the living. . . -- . .into 'moral living' -- 3. Love for art's sake. Evil at work -- Liverpool sheds and Romany flotsam -- What comes naturally -- Team spirit -- Candid white and matching green -- 4. Men must play and women weep. Keeping up the game -- At the crossroads -- From a view to a birth -- Channel crossing -- A seaside change -- 'Here's to love!' -- 5. Buffeted by fate. The battle of the babies -- Images of Yeats -- All boys brave and beautiful -- Or something -- Ethics and rainbows -- In laws and outlaws -- In the roving line -- Fatal initiations -- Italian style, French found -- 6. Revolution 1910. What they said at the time -- What he said -- What he said about them -- What happened -- What next? -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 2 : the years of experience. 7. Before the deluge. A summer of poetry -- The second Mrs. Strindberg -- Cavaliers and eggheads -- Chronic potential -- 8. How he got on. Marking time -- The Virgin's prayer -- Corrupt coteries -- Augustus does his bit -- 9. Artist of the portraits. Everybody's doing it -- Surviving friends, women and children : an A to Z -- Faces and tales -- Methods and places -- Undiscovered countries -- 10. The way they lived then. Fryern Court -- A long love affair with drink -- In spite of everything or because of it -- His fifties, their thirties -- Children of the great -- Barren our lives -- 11. Things past. Black out -- Fragments -- The morning after -- A way out -- Appendix 1: Desecration of Saint Paul's -- Appendix 2: John's pictures at the New English Art Club -- Appendix 3: The Chelsea Art School prospectus -- Appendix 4: 'To Iris Tree' : a parody of Arthur Symons -- Appendix 5: The John Beauty chorus -- ".
- catalog title "Augustus John / Michael Holroyd.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".