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Keith Vaughan - Journals, 1939-1977 - 9780571260386 - V9780571260386
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Journals, 1939-1977

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Keith Vaughan's Journals merits a place among the greatest confessional writing of the twentieth century. Vaughan belonged to the Neo-Romantic group of landscape painters that included Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. Much troubled by his homosexuality, he began a diary in 1939, 'faced at the age of twenty-seven with what then seemed the likelihood of imminent extinction before I had properly got started'; and he would write until his suicide in 1977.

Editor Alan Ross hails Vaughan's Journals as 'a self-portrait of astonishing honesty: devoid of disguise in any shape or form, or hypocrisy'. The earlier entries, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571260386
SKU
V9780571260386
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3

About Keith Vaughan
Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) was a painter and a writer. As a painter he belonged initially to the Neo-Romantic movement of the 1940s but increasingly developed his own idiosyncratic style. Concentrating on studies of male figures, his style became progressively more abstract. Despite his undeniable stature as an artist, he is perhaps as well known today for his journals which ... Read more

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