Selected Letters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges, spine and corners. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact.
A remarkable window into the world of early twentieth-century British art, Selected Letters presents the personal correspondence of Mark Gertler, one of the most gifted and turbulent painters of his generation. Edited by Noel Carrington, the collection chronicles Gertler's intimate relationships, artistic struggles, and passionate engagement with the Bloomsbury Group, including figures such as Dora Carrington, D.H. Lawrence, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. The letters reveal a young Jewish immigrant from London's East End who clawed his way into the heart of English bohemian society, driven by an almost painful intensity of feeling and ambition. Written with candour and raw emotional honesty, they paint a vivid portrait of an artist caught between two worlds — the working-class roots he never forgot and the glittering cultural milieu he inhabited. This edition stands as an essential document for anyone interested in the life of British modernism and the personal cost of artistic devotion.
Author: Mark Gertler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Rupert Hart-Davis
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges, spine and corners. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact.
A remarkable window into the world of early twentieth-century British art, Selected Letters presents the personal correspondence of Mark Gertler, one of the most gifted and turbulent painters of his generation. Edited by Noel Carrington, the collection chronicles Gertler's intimate relationships, artistic struggles, and passionate engagement with the Bloomsbury Group, including figures such as Dora Carrington, D.H. Lawrence, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. The letters reveal a young Jewish immigrant from London's East End who clawed his way into the heart of English bohemian society, driven by an almost painful intensity of feeling and ambition. Written with candour and raw emotional honesty, they paint a vivid portrait of an artist caught between two worlds — the working-class roots he never forgot and the glittering cultural milieu he inhabited. This edition stands as an essential document for anyone interested in the life of British modernism and the personal cost of artistic devotion.