Lee Baxandall

Lee Baxandall (born January 26, 1935 in Oshkosh , Wisconsin , † November 28, 2008 ibid) was an American writer , translator and activist of the American nudism movement.

Life

Baxandell was active in the scouting movement in his childhood and youth. After attending high school in his hometown, he studied from 1953 to 1958 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In the 1960s, he lived in New York, where he established himself in the left scene as a playwright, essayist and critic, and in magazines such as The Drama Review , Partisan Review , The Village Voice , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Science and Society published .

After his father's death in 1970, he returned to his hometown and took over the Baxandall Company , a publisher of educational literature. It was around this time that he became interested in the nudism movement and founded The Naturist Society (TNS) and its magazine Clothed with the Sun (later Nude and Natural or N Magazine ). At his suggestion, the Gay Naturists International was founded in 1983 . In 1990, Baxandell founded the Naturist Action Committee and in 1993 the Naturist Education Foundation . In the 1980s and 1990s he edited Lee Baxandall's World Guide to Nude Beaches and Resorts .

In addition to plays, poems and essays, Baxandell wrote literary theoretical and critical works, including Radical Perspectives in the Arts , Marxism and Aesthetics and (with Stefan Morawski ) Marx & Engels on Literature and Art and became known as a translator of Bertolt Brecht's dramas . As a passionate art collector, he made a special contribution to the work of the long-ignored painter Robert Koehler .

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SURNAME	Baxandall, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American writer, translator, and activist of the American nudism movement
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oshkosh , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 2008
Place of death	Oshkosh , Wisconsin