James Lord
James Lord (born November 27, 1922 in Englewood (New Jersey) , † August 23, 2009 in Paris , France ) was an American writer and biographer.
Live and act
Lord attended Wesleyan University without excelling. After the attack on Pearl Harbor , he volunteered for the army and served in the military intelligence service. He landed with the Allies in Normandy in 1944 and returned to France in 1947. Lord had visited Pablo Picasso in 1944 and renewed contact. He got to know other important personalities and artists such as Gertrude Stein and Arletty , but especially Alberto Giacometti , with whom he had been friends since 1952, whom he modeled and whose authoritative biography he wrote. Another major work are the first three volumes of his memoirs in the form of prose portraits.
In 1952, James Lord and John Rewald founded the Cézanne Memorial Committee to protect Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence from demolition. The studio was saved with the help of American donations and handed over to the University of Aix-Marseille . A museum has been housed in the studio since 1954.
Fonts
- No Traveler Returns: A Novel . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956
- The Joy of Success: A Novel . J. Day Co., 1958
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A Giacometti Portrait . MoMA, New York 1965
- Alberto Giacometti - A Portrait . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1984. ISBN 3-548-60097-2
- Alberto Giacometti: Drawings . Secker & Warburg 1971. (Catalog)
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Alberto Giacometti . 1985
- Alberto Giacometti - a biography . Scherz, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-85881-157-2
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Picasso and Dora Maar : A Personal Memoir . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993
- Picasso and Dora Maar. A personal memory . Matthes and Seitz. 1994
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Six Exceptional Women: Further Memoirs . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994
- Extraordinary Women - Six Portraits . Matthes and Seitz 1999, ISBN 3-88221-803-7 ( Alice B. Toklas , the partner of Gertrude Stein , Arletty , Marie-Laure de Noailles , Errieta Perdikidi, Louise Bennett Lord, his mother)
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Some Remarkable Men: Further Memoirs . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996
- Some notable men - more memories . Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88221-819-3 (including Balthus , Alberto Giacometti , Harold Acton , Jean Cocteau )
- A Gift for Admiration: Further Memoirs . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998
- Stories of Youth . Elysium Press, 2001. Contains the two short stories The Lizard (1949) and The Boy Who Wrote NO (1950)
- Plausible Portraits of James Lord: With Commentary by the Model . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
- Mythic Giacometti . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004
- My Queer War . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010
Filmography
- The British film biography of Stanley Tucci Final portrait had on 11 February 2017 the International Film Festival in Berlin its world premiere and was released in Germany on 3 August 2017th The actor by the artist Alberto Giacometti is Geoffrey Rush , James Lord is played by Armie Hammer . The screenplay is based on James Lord's biography of Giacometti and is set in Paris in 1964.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the footsteps of Cézanne. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Aix en Provence Tourist Office, 2010, archived from the original on December 20, 2010 ; Retrieved July 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Final Portrait , www.berlinale.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lord, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Englewood, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 2009 |
| Place of death | Paris |