Sonia Delaunay: Artist of the Lost Generation - Hardcover

Madsen, Axel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070394571 ISBN 13: 9780070394575

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1989

Synopsis

A biography of Russian-born artist Sonia Delaunay, a major figure in the birth of abstract painting, offers an intimate glimpse of the artist, her famous contemporaries, and Paris culture since the 1920s

About this title

Review:

“In this gossipy, wonderfully evocative biography, Madsen, biographer of Malraux and Sartre, juggles an astonishing cast of luminaries as he re-creates the bohemian artistic-literary circles of Paris.” —Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Axel Madsen authored twenty-two books, including sixteen biographies. His most notable works include an in-depth look at the life of a legendary fashion icon, Chanel: A Woman of Her Own, and an investigation of the relationship between Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy. Madsen began his journalism career as a legman for columnist Art Buchwald in Paris, and later wrote one of the first books on television’s longest-running news magazine show, 60 Minutes: The Power and the Politics of America’s Most Popular TV News Show. As a 20th Century Fox publicist, he handled Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and George C. Scott, and was fired off Myra Breckinridge for siding with director Mike Sarne against producer Robert Fryer. His Hollywood biographies include the life stories of directors William Wyler, John Huston, and Barbara Stanwyck, as well as an examination of Golden Age Hollywood’s gay underground in The Sewing Circle. He wrote and produced the ITV documentary version of The Sewing Circle. Over the years, Madsen interviewed scores of movers and shakers, from legends like Goldwyn and Selznick to directors like Howard Hawks, Louis Milestone, and Rouben Mamoulian. Madsen died in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0070394571
• ISBN 13: 9780070394575
• Binding: Hardcover