Gosling Nigel Compiled Edited Robert (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published some six years after Goslings death as an anthology of his writing on art. He also wrote extensively on dance and was editor on the autobiography of Rudolf Nureyev. There is a cover illustration on the dj by his friend David Hockney and puffs by Susan Sontag, Kathleen Tynan, who wrote "A rich and readable selection from the work of a great art critic. Nigel Gosling had what the Spanish call alegria: the quality that combaines lightness, wit, and grace." Full page black and white photograph on frontis piece. Red cloth covered boards are fine. There is faint foxing to the top edge of the text block. Red illustrated dj is just a little worn to extremities, a tad sunned to spine and has some pale yellow faintly on the white rear cover, minor marks. Otherwise very good indeed. Loosely inserted is an original photograph (29 x 19.5cm landscape) showing Nigel Gosling, Henry Moore and Maude Gosling leaning on a gate in conversation. It is from a series taken by Jane Bown on the occasion. Another from the series forms the frontispiece of this book. One of the author's personal copies, acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".