Description
| Product ID: | 9781408878361 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Passionate Spirit |
| Subtitle: | The Life of Alma Mahler |
| Authors: | Author: Cate Haste |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th century & contemporary classical music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Biography: arts & entertainment |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating __________________________'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__________________________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 historyAlma 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 Drawing extensively on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Cate Haste illuminates the passionate spirit of one of history’s most complex and charismatic muses, a modern woman with an elemental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. __________________________''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__________________________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 historyAlma 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-06-11 |