9780262581639
Somehow a Past: A Autobiography of Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley
ISBN 13: 9780262581639
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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"Hartley's diffident and elusive title does not convey the energy, charm and sheer pleasure of this artist's account of his life and travels. . . . Marsden Hartley is an extraordinary witness to his age. The book joins a rich body of 'witness' literature left us by Hartley's friends and conspirators in the 'modern movement' like Gertrude Stein, Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle, Mabel Dodge and Ernest Hemingway. One of the few painters turned writer, Hartley has given us an intensely visual record of a time he called a 'cross 'tween a circus and a sacred affair,' when everything was possible, and the artist's goal was simply to remake the world." -- Julie Martin, The New York Times Book Review Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is best known as an American modernist and pioneering artist of the early twentieth century. But he was also a prolific writer who published dozens of essays and reviews and several volumes of poetry and prose. The autobiographical account of his life is the most revealing document he left about his personal life and relationships--both for its disclosures and omissions--but has never been published before. Somehow a Past is compelling both as historical document and as personal narrative. Hartley knew nearly every figure of the international avant-garde in his day and unfolds his life largely through a chain of personal encounters. His traffic with such major literary and artistic figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Vasili Kandinski, Gertrude Stein, Mabel Dodge, Eugene O'Neill, Robert McAlmon, and Charles Demuth is recorded, as are his travels both domestic and foreign.
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"The reader may not find the inner man in 'Somehow a Past' but Hartley is an extraordinary witness to his age....One of the few painters turned writers, Hartley has given us an intensely visual record of a time he called a 'cross 'tween a circus and a sacred affair,' when everything was possible, and the artist's goal was simply to remake the world."
James R. Mellow
Review:"[H]e comes across here as too cool and detached an observer to completely draw us into his world."
Barbara Haskell
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Book Description: MIT Press Ltd, United States, 1998. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 178 x 127 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is best known as an American modernist and pioneering artist of the early twentieth century. But he was also a prolific writer who published dozens of essays and reviews and several volumes of poetry and prose. The autobiographical account of his life in the manuscript collection of Yale's Beinecke Library has often been consulted by scholars and curators writing about Hartley. It is the most revealing document he left about his personal life and relationships -- both for its disclosures and omissions -- but has never been published before.Transcribed from Hartley's own handwritten manuscripts, this edition is accompanied by photographs (some never before published), notes, and an introduction discussing Hartley's fascination with autobiography in the context of his struggle with notions of self-representation in art. Susan Ryan also describes the circumstances surrounding the composition of Somehow a Past, and explains the distinctions between this original version and two later ones also in the Beinecke Library.Somehow a Past is compelling both as historical document and as personal narrative.Although solitary, self-involved, and saturnine, Hartley nevertheless knew nearly every figure of the international avant-garde in his day and unfolds his life largely through a chain of personal encounters. His traffic with such major literary and artistic figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Vasili Kandinski, Gertrude Stein, Mabel Dodge, Eugene O'Neill, Robert McAlmon, and Charles Demuth is recorded as are his travels both domestic and foreign.Somehow a Past is gossipy, discursive, and self-distanced. Hartley drafted it several times, truncating the description of his traumatic childhood, and leaving out any overt reference to his homosexuality. Yet there are moments of crystal clear self-characterization and leitmotifs that commemorate his troubled youth. Bookseller Inventory # AAH9780262581639 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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