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L.S. Lowry Paperback: 432 pages
An exhaustive biography on the man, his life and art.
This is the definitive study of the life of L.S. Lowry, a painter of outstanding distinction and popularity, and an intensely private man around whom many myths and misconceptions have sprung up over the years. First published in 1979, this book is now reissued in a completely revised and enlarged edition, with more than 200 illustrations.
Shelley Rohde's penetrating biography explores the painter, the man and the myths. It begins with his early life and examines the emergence - while Lowry tramped the Manchester streets as a rent-collector - of his unique 'industrial' vision. It reveals the personal influences that shaped him: the adored mother to whom his painting was a kind of shameful aberration; the various circle of friends that he kept in carefully guarded ignorance of each other; and his innocent but strange friendships with a series of 'Ann-figures' - a succession of girls and young women to whom he felt closely drawn. It charts the long years without recognition, the gathering momentum of success, and the appearance of the public 'Lowry' that so effectively disguised the private man.
I first met L.S. Lowry one bleak day in January 1972, and almost immediately fell under the spell of his personality. I had been sent to interview him, on the occasion of his so-called retirement from painting, by the Daily Mail. It was an intrusion, without appointment or warning, that he acepted with patience and courtesy. I met him only three times after thatbut becane, and remained, an imtemperate admirer of both the man and the artist. When he died, the Daily Mail again asked me to write of him: an obituary. It was at this point, while sifting the piles of newspaper cuttings, that I first became aware of how little was known of
him; much had been written, litte said.
The first edition of this biography of Lowry was published in 1979, a paperback edition followed in 1987. More recently, when lottery money had enabled a fine new arts centre bearing him name to be built in the once derelict Salford Docks, I was asked to update the book in time for the opening of The Lowry in the year 2000. Much had happened to the legacy of Laurence Stephen Lowry in those intervening years - to the extent that, in 1998, one Lowry painting sold for almost double the sum total of his entire estate: Piccadilly Circus fetched more than half a milion pounds; he had left around a quarter of a million. Several books have been published, films had been made, and a ballet based on his life. In this Millenium edition of A Private View, I have not only taked, with the benefit of hindsight, to new critics and old friends, and incorporated relevant new information from letters and memoirs, but have explored some of the darker aspecs of the artist's life. I have also tried to determine the answer to the question Lowry so frequenty asked in his later years: 'Will I live?' I, for one, think he will
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Images © Estate of L.S. Lowry/Lowry Press. Preface Text © Shelley Rohde. All Rights Reserved.
Jan. 2017: 1 back in stock. 'Used - acceptable'. See photos above as that is the one for sale. This copy does have wear but is a workable copy.
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