Arts and letters
By: by Edmund White.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Arts, Modern -- 20th century.; Artists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "39 lively essays and profiles ... illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Writing Gay; title: The new historical novel; title: George Eliot; title: Ivan Bunin; title: Knut Hamsun; title: Marcel Proust; title: André Gide; title: Oscar Wilde; title: Joe Orton; title: Paul Bowles; title: Allen Ginsberg; title: Djuna Barnes; title: Marjorie Garber; title: Bruce Chatwin; title: Edwin Denby; title: Coleman Dowell; title: Grace Paley; title: Jean Genet; title: Michel Foucault; title: Alain Robbe-Grillet; title: James Merrill; title: Christopher Isherwood; title: Ned Rorem; title: James Baldwin; title: Vladimir Nabokov; title: Marcel Duchamp; title: Andy Warhol; title: Gilbert and George; title: Joe Brainard; title: Steve Wolfe; title: Rebecca Horn; title: Cy Twombly; title: Jasper Johns; title: Herbert List; title: Robert Mapplethorpe; title: Yves Saint Laurent; title: Catherine Deneuve; title: David Geffen; title: Elton John.