Passionate Spirit
Autor Cate Hasteen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 2019
A new biography of Alma Mahler (1879-1964), revealing a woman determined to wield power in a world that denied her agency
History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her peers. Drawing on Alma's vivid, sensual, and overlooked diaries, biographer Cate Haste recounts the untold and far more sympathetic story of this ambitious and talented woman. Though she dreamed of being the first woman to compose a famous opera, Alma was stifled by traditional social values. Eventually, she put her own dreams aside and wielded power and influence the only way she could, by supporting the art of more famous men. She worked alongside them and gained credit as their muse, commanding their love and demanding their respect.
Passionate Spirit restores vibrant humanity to a woman time turned into a caricature, providing an important correction to a history where systemic sexism has long erased women of talent.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465096718
ISBN-10: 0465096719
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 241 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
ISBN-10: 0465096719
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 241 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Notă biografică
Cate Haste is a biographer, historian, and filmmaker. She is the author of a number of books, including Nazi Women and the award-winning biography Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint. Haste lives in London.
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'Fascinating ... Haste paints a portrait of a woman who was born to triumph, not surrender' - Harper's Bazaar
'Written in elegant, lucid prose ... a treasure trove of European cultural riches and scandalous intrigue . Compelling' - Economist
'Lively, well illustrated and enjoyably juicy' - Miranda Seymour, Financial Times
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The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in history
Alma Mahler was once at the epicentre of Vienna's artistic and intellectual life. A talented composer in her own right, she was open, generous, remarkably creative, curious, challenging and zealous in her pursuit of love. Artists, architects, musicians and writers jostled to join her coterie. Gustav Klimt was her first kiss; Gustav Mahler her first husband. But her life was haunted by tragedy, and the support and inspiration that Alma gave to the men she loved came at the heavy price of her own artistic fulfilment.
Drawing extensively on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Cate Haste illuminates the passionate spirit of one of history's most complex and charismatic muses, a modern woman with an elemental vitality that could scarcely be contained by her century - who will live forever in the art she created and inspired.
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'Fascinating ... Haste paints a portrait of a woman who was born to triumph, not surrender' - Harper's Bazaar
'Written in elegant, lucid prose ... a treasure trove of European cultural riches and scandalous intrigue . Compelling' - Economist
'Lively, well illustrated and enjoyably juicy' - Miranda Seymour, Financial Times
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The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in history
Alma Mahler was once at the epicentre of Vienna's artistic and intellectual life. A talented composer in her own right, she was open, generous, remarkably creative, curious, challenging and zealous in her pursuit of love. Artists, architects, musicians and writers jostled to join her coterie. Gustav Klimt was her first kiss; Gustav Mahler her first husband. But her life was haunted by tragedy, and the support and inspiration that Alma gave to the men she loved came at the heavy price of her own artistic fulfilment.
Drawing extensively on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Cate Haste illuminates the passionate spirit of one of history's most complex and charismatic muses, a modern woman with an elemental vitality that could scarcely be contained by her century - who will live forever in the art she created and inspired.
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Fascinating ... Haste paints a portrait of a woman who was born to triumph, not surrender
Cate Haste's seductively accessible biography offers a sympathetic interpretation of Alma's life. Written in elegant, lucid prose, her book is a treasure trove of European cultural riches and scandalous intrigue . [Alma] emerges as a tough, lively, cultured and wilful woman . Compelling
Lively, well illustrated and enjoyably juicy
A welcome and engaging narrative of a life that, surely, has not yet been fully explored
[An] absorbing biography ... Through reference to diaries, letters and interviews with Mahler's granddaughter, Haste draws a portrait of a complex, highly accomplished woman . Mahler is depicted as a woman who not only facilitated the creative pursuits of her husbands, but was an intellectual force in her own right
Cate Haste's seductively accessible biography offers a sympathetic interpretation of Alma's life. Written in elegant, lucid prose, her book is a treasure trove of European cultural riches and scandalous intrigue . [Alma] emerges as a tough, lively, cultured and wilful woman . Compelling
Lively, well illustrated and enjoyably juicy
A welcome and engaging narrative of a life that, surely, has not yet been fully explored
[An] absorbing biography ... Through reference to diaries, letters and interviews with Mahler's granddaughter, Haste draws a portrait of a complex, highly accomplished woman . Mahler is depicted as a woman who not only facilitated the creative pursuits of her husbands, but was an intellectual force in her own right