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245 10 a| Modigliani :b| a life /c| Meryle Secrest.;

250 a| 1st ed.;

260 a| New York :b| Alfred A. Knopf,c| 2011.;

300 a| xxiii, 387 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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500 a| "A Borzoi book.";

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-370) and index.;

520 a| Amedeo Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In his time, his work was seen as an oddity, a link between such portraitists as Whistler and Sargent and the modernist approaches of Gauguin and Picasso. In this major new biography, Meryle Secrest gives us a fully realized portrait of one of the twentieth century's master painters and sculptors: his upbringing, a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished but genteel Italian family; his going to Paris to make his fortune; his striking good looks; his training as an artist--and his influences: the Italian Renaissance, particularly Botticelli; Nietzsche's theories of the artist as Übermensch; the Romanian sculptor Brancusi; and the primitive sculptures of Africa and Oceania with their simplified, masklike faces. We see how his secret illness--tuberculosis--affected his work and his fatalistic attitude toward life, and how he used alcohol and opium to hide the symptoms and thus came to be seen as a dissolute alcoholic. And throughout, we see the Paris that Modigliani lived in, a city in dynamic flux where art was still a noble cause in a transforming revolution.--From publisher description.;

505 0 a| The problem -- The clues -- Dedo -- The blood red banner -- The perfect line -- La vie de Bohème -- The serpent's skin -- "What I am searching for" -- Maldoror -- Beatrice -- A stony silence -- "Nenette" -- Life is a gift -- The cult of the secret -- Epilogue.;

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Modigliani : a life / Meryle Secrest.

Author/creator	Secrest, Meryle
Other author	Modigliani, Amedeo, 1884-1920.
Format	Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Description	xxiii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Modigliani, Amedeo, 1884-1920. Painters--Italy. --Biography.

Contents	The problem -- The clues -- Dedo -- The blood red banner -- The perfect line -- La vie de Bohème -- The serpent's skin -- "What I am searching for" -- Maldoror -- Beatrice -- A stony silence -- "Nenette" -- Life is a gift -- The cult of the secret -- Epilogue.
Abstract	Amedeo Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In his time, his work was seen as an oddity, a link between such portraitists as Whistler and Sargent and the modernist approaches of Gauguin and Picasso. In this major new biography, Meryle Secrest gives us a fully realized portrait of one of the twentieth century's master painters and sculptors: his upbringing, a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished but genteel Italian family; his going to Paris to make his fortune; his striking good looks; his training as an artist--and his influences: the Italian Renaissance, particularly Botticelli; Nietzsche's theories of the artist as Übermensch; the Romanian sculptor Brancusi; and the primitive sculptures of Africa and Oceania with their simplified, masklike faces. We see how his secret illness--tuberculosis--affected his work and his fatalistic attitude toward life, and how he used alcohol and opium to hide the symptoms and thus came to be seen as a dissolute alcoholic. And throughout, we see the Paris that Modigliani lived in, a city in dynamic flux where art was still a noble cause in a transforming revolution.--From publisher description.
General note	"A Borzoi book."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-370) and index.
LCCN	2010045357
ISBN	9780307263681
ISBN	0307263681

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