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| Size | | Length: | 318 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "My earliest, indeed happiest, memories are bound up with the Army and Navy Stores--not a shop selling surplus camouflage gear but a once celebrated London department store, which my father had helped to found and continued, as vice chairman, to run very efficiently until his death."
Industry Reviews
"Richardson is an engaging writer...."
Barber
"John Richardson is one of those gossips who knows--or at least knows about--everyone....The numerous vivid, detailed, shrewd, uncensorious accounts of Picasso's homes and studios, his hoarding and his superstitions, his charm and cruelty, will presumably find their way into the author's multi-volume biography of the artist....These entertaining pages are full of evidence showing how reputations were promoted, sustained, or assailed."
Penny
"Pausing midway in his mammoth biography of Picasso, John Richardson has written a concise account of the first half of his own life and notably of his long relationship as a young man with the Cubist art historian and collector Douglas Cooper....No doubt Cooper had his saving graces and Richardson was fonder of him than his memoir conveys. Had Richardson revealed more about his own personality and inner drives, it would have done much to give this engaging, witty account of a not so misspent youth the resonance of a truly memorable memoir."
New York Times - Michael Peppiatt (12/12/1999)
"Anyone who thinks modern life is too frantic can take comfort from the story of John Richardson's epic biography of Picasso, probably the most important art book of the decade."
Guardian (London) - Andrew Marr (12/05/1999)
"This is a comic, bitter account of the relationship between a talented young art critic, John Richardson, and an overbearing older man, art collector Douglas Cooper. Richardson is well known as the biographer of Picasso; Cooper is forgotten, save by those who knew him. Richardson's reputation could not be higher; to the extent that Cooper still has a reputation, it is low. Richardson's writing will survive him; Cooper's art collection has been dispersed."
Guardian (London) (12/05/1999)
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