Laura P. Claridge
Auteur van Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
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- Gangbare naam
- Claridge, Laura P.
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Claridge, Laura Powell
- Geboortedatum
- 1952-07-27
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Clearwater, Florida, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Hudson Valley, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Maryland (PhD.)
- Beroepen
- writer
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- Flip Brophy (Sterling Lord Literistic)
- Korte biografie
- Laura Claridge has written books ranging from feminist theory to biography and popular culture, most recently Norman Rockwell: A Life (Random House). Her forthcoming book is a biography of American icon Emily Post, Emily Post and the American Dream (Random House, October 08), for which she received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (2005). A year later, in 2006, she received the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for a Work in Progress, administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Born in Clearwater, Florida, Laura Claridge received her Ph.D. in British Romanticism and Literary Theory from the University of Maryland in 1986. She taught in the English departments at Converse and Wofford colleges in Spartanburg, SC, and was a tenured professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis until 1997.
She has been a frequent writer and reviewer for the national press, appearing in such newspapers as The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. Her books have been translated into Spanish, German, and Polish. She has appeared frequently in the national media, including NBC, CNN, BBC, CSPAN, and NPR and such widely watched programs as the Today Show.
Laura Claridge and her husband live in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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Blanche Knopf is an extraordinary figure who shaped our worldview for generations. We have her to thank for many additions to our 20th century canon.
An intriguing look into a life and an age, spanning from the end of the American Civil War to the end of World War I, and the changing society therein.
I bought this book in London in 2000 and 16 years later I finally read it. I knew nothing about Tamara’s life and paintings and I can’t remember why I bought this book in the first place. I think it was an article I read at the time.
I am not an art historian, academic, dealer or collector, I love the arts and Marc Chagall is one of my favourite painters, but I appreciate many others from different periods and ‘categorizations’. Still, this book sat on my library, I remember looking at it many times but never with enough interest, or prompted by an external source i.e. exhibition or review, until I spontaneously picked it up and read it.
The author has brought to life a brave, complex, wounded, but above all, fascinating woman. And although the author makes her profound admiration for Tamara’s unquestionable talent very clear, she does not shy away from showing the flawed and fearful human being. Depression, loneliness, obscurity, unhappiness, the book shows that her paintings were her life and everything in her is in her paintings.
The book also demonstrates how women painters were seen as inferior and less valuable throughout art history vis-à-vis male painters, how ideals of ‘feminism’ have been narrowly defined, and how superficial and unreliable the mass media, even decades ago, were. And that a person’s life cannot be detached from its historical context.
One minor detail, I wish the author had expanded a little bit on what happened to Tamara’s daughter after her death.… (meer)
I am not an art historian, academic, dealer or collector, I love the arts and Marc Chagall is one of my favourite painters, but I appreciate many others from different periods and ‘categorizations’. Still, this book sat on my library, I remember looking at it many times but never with enough interest, or prompted by an external source i.e. exhibition or review, until I spontaneously picked it up and read it.
The author has brought to life a brave, complex, wounded, but above all, fascinating woman. And although the author makes her profound admiration for Tamara’s unquestionable talent very clear, she does not shy away from showing the flawed and fearful human being. Depression, loneliness, obscurity, unhappiness, the book shows that her paintings were her life and everything in her is in her paintings.
The book also demonstrates how women painters were seen as inferior and less valuable throughout art history vis-à-vis male painters, how ideals of ‘feminism’ have been narrowly defined, and how superficial and unreliable the mass media, even decades ago, were. And that a person’s life cannot be detached from its historical context.
One minor detail, I wish the author had expanded a little bit on what happened to Tamara’s daughter after her death.… (meer)
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Few people probably know much about the man himself and how he lived, his proclivities, and his general demeanor. This book fills in all the details as it is quite an extensive writing. The two main characteristics that are presented is his extensive travel throughout his life and his anxiety ridden outlook on life due mainly to his upbringing and his enormous workload.
The final word on Rockwell was that he was dedicated to his art, overly sensitive to criticism of his illustrative work and about as absent a family man as one could probably be. His work though is cherished my millions and lives on as his mark on the world of art.… (meer)