James Lord (author)
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James Lord was an American
writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of the artists Alberto Giacometti
and Pablo Picasso
. He appeared in Balthus Through the Looking Glass
, a 1996 documentary film
.
He is the author of the following works, among others:
Lord attended Wesleyan University
.
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writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of the artists Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter...
and Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
. He appeared in Balthus Through the Looking Glass
Balthus Through the Looking Glass
Balthus Through the Looking-Glass is a 1996 French documentary film directed by Damian Pettigrew on the French painter Balthus filmed at work in his studio....
, a 1996 documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
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He is the author of the following works, among others:
- No Traveler Returns (1956, novel)
- The Joys of Success (1958, novel)
- A Giacometti Portrait (1965, biography)
- Giacometti: A Biography (1985, biography)
- Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir (1993, biography)
- Six Exceptional Women (1994)
- Some Remarkable Men (1996)
- A Gift for Admiration (1998)
- My Queer War (2010, posthumous)
Lord attended Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
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