The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper by John Richards

Description: The Sorcerer's Apprentice by John Richardson This is John Richardsons memoir of the time he spent living with and learning from the deeply knowledgeable and temperamental art collector, Douglas Cooper. For ten years the two entertained a circle of friends that included Jean Cocteau, W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams and Pablo Picasso. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Sorcerers Apprentice is John Richardsons vivid memoir of the time he spent living with and learning from the deeply knowledgeable and temperamental art collector, Douglas Cooper. For ten years the two entertained a circle of friends that included Jean Cocteau, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, and, most intriguingly, Pablo Picasso. Compulsively readable and beautifully illustrated, this book is both a triple portrait of the author, Cooper, and Picasso, and a revealing look at a crucial artistic period. Notes John Richardson wrote "A Life of Picasso" which won the 1991 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Flap The Sorcerers Apprentice is John Richardsons vivid memoir of the time he spent living with and learning from the omniscient but irascible art collector, Douglas Cooper. For ten years the two entertained a circle of friends that included Jean Cocteau, Isiah Berlin, Fernand Leger and, most intriguingly, Pablo Picasso. Compulsively readable and illustrated throughout, this book is a triple portrait of the author, Cooper, and Picasso, as well as a revealing look at a crucial artistic period. Author Biography John Richardson is the author of two volumes of A Life of Picasso, the first of which won the 1991 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Army and Navy Child Douglas Cooper First Night Grand Tour Back on the Road The Revelation of Castille Miscreants, Pets, and Neighbors A Trip with Picasso The Visitors Book Graham Sutherland and the Tate Affair God Save the Queen Painters and Paintings Picasso and Dora Collectors Picasso and Jacqueline The Sorcerers Apprentice The Beginning of the End The End Epilogue Select Bibliography Index Promotional John Richardson wrote "A Life of Picasso" which won the 1991 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Kirkus UK Review John Richardsons father was Sir Wodehouse Richardson, a highly successful quartermaster in Britains pre-1914 imperial campaigns who ended up founding the Army and Navy Stores. His maternal relations were butlers and ladies maids to the Rothschilds at Mentmore. My upstairs-downstairs back-ground has proved, if anything, an advantage, writes Richardson. It meant he could operate - socially, morally and intellectually speaking - free from orthodox restrictions or prejudices. The liberating sense of being an outsider was reinforced by 12 years apprenticeship to the art historian Douglas Cooper. The two met in 1949 when Richardson was 25: a handsome, passionate and penniless art-lover, 13 years younger than Cooper, who had already built up the unrivalled collection of Cubist masterpieces which enabled him to terrorize the art world through a series of fearsome public vendettas. This rip-roaring memoir covers the years the couple spent together in Coopers castle in Provence, which served as a kind of court annexe for Picasso and his entourage. Regular visitors - ranging from Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten to Anthony Blunt, W H Auden and Angus Wilson - represented the cream of what Richardson calls la haute pederastie. Kenneth Clarke left a vivid account of the founding father of all art historians, Bernard Berenson, whom he saw as a latterday Faust: a man of incomparably astute and refined sensibility whose dealings with the art market meant selling his sould to the devil. When Cooper and his companion visited Berenson just before he died, Richardson came away convinced that his master had made the same bargain. The Sorcerers Apprentice tells the story of an extraordinary, complex and often ferocious affair which ended ostensibly in 1960 but was only finally resolved with Coopers death in 1984, and the dedication to his memory seven years later of Richardsons definitive life of Picasso. Review by Hilary Spurling, whose books include The Unknown Matisse (Kirkus UK) Details ISBN0226712451 Author John Richardson Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0226712451 ISBN-13 9780226712451 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2001 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Birth 1924 Short Title SORCERERS APPRENTICE REV/E 2/E DOI 10.1604/9780226712451 AU Release Date 2001-09-25 NZ Release Date 2001-09-25 US Release Date 2001-09-25 UK Release Date 2001-09-25 Pages 322 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Edition Description New edition Publication Date 2001-09-25 DEWEY 709.2 Illustrations 124 halftones Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:6906920;

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