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Loading... Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circleby David Leddick
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This gossipy, amusing and informative book, explores the artistic, social and sexual lives of the largely homosexual circle that developed around George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, and Lincoln Kirstein. This group used their considerable good looks, charm, and social skills to meet everybody, it seems, and developed careers that were probably in excess of their true talents. Nor were they shy about borrowing to maintain lifestyles devoted to good living, beauty, and, well, younger men. Based, in very large part, on interviews with the participants, this book is a fascinating look into how one prominent group negotiated more-or-less openly gay lives in the years before Stonewall. The "triography" strategy in which each figure is given a few pages in turn (there are also chapters devoted other members of the circle) results in a great deal of repetition as the same anecdote appears in turn as each participant is discussed. The book is somewhat untidily written and under-edited. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein played a major role in creating the institutions of the American art world from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The three created a remarkable world of gay aesthetics and desire in art with the help of their overlapping circle of friends, lovers, and collaborators. Through hours of conversation with surviving members with their circle and unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photos, David Leddick has resurrected the influences of this now-vanished art world along with the lives and loves of all three artists in this groundbreaking biography. No library descriptions found. |
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