The most beautiful man in the world : Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol /
"What Warhol didn't know was that Swan had also been called "America's Leonardo," portrait artist of the famous and the infamous, including writer Willa Cather, aviator Charles Lindbergh, British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and dictator Benito Mussolini. This book...
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2006]
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| Summary: | "What Warhol didn't know was that Swan had also been called "America's Leonardo," portrait artist of the famous and the infamous, including writer Willa Cather, aviator Charles Lindbergh, British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and dictator Benito Mussolini. This book is the first to tell Swan's story, from his days as a world-famous dancer and artist, through his film career - which ran from silent pictures, including De Mille's Ten Commandments (1923), to Warhol's Camp, Paul Swan, and Paul Swan I-IV (1965) - to his portrait painting late in life when Nelson Rockefeller's children, Malachy McCourt, and Pope Paul VI were among his subjects. Janis and Richard Londraville reconstruct the intriguing life of this uniquely interesting figure, whose story, although widely glossed in the press, was until now never fully known."--Jacket." |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 278 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803229690 9780803229693 |