Barbara Hanrahan: A BiographyWakefield Press, 2010 - 303 Seiten 'It is a struggle ... to be me,' wrote Barbara Hanrahan, '... to accept ME, and my spiritual purpose.' This authoritative biography illuminates the life of a great Australian writer and artist. The story starts with Barbara Hanrahan's childhood in Adelaide, travels with her to 'swinging London' of the 1960s, and recounts her remarkable achievements in Britain and Australia in the following decades. Like the artists she most admired - among them, William Blake, Frida Kahlo and D.H. Lawrence - Barbara Hanrahan dedicated herself uncompromisingly to the life of the mind and spirit, producing a body of work that remains challenging and rewarding. Annette Stewart has drawn on a wealth of unpublished material, including the artist's letters, photographs, prints and diaries, as well as interviews with her friends and her partner, the sculptor Jo Steele. Barbara Hanrahan is beautifully illustrated with a number of Hanrahan's artworks, some of which have not been published before, and many photographs from her life. |
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Origins | 1 |
The Widening Circle | 20 |
Oil Paints and Beauty Beads | 28 |
Feeling like Van Gogh | 35 |
Cynical Sex Kicks and Sudden Disillusion | 42 |
Woman of a Lifetime | 61 |
Fact into Fiction | 79 |
A Literary Life | 85 |
The United States and Mexico | 161 |
From Haworth to New Mexico | 174 |
New Directions | 191 |
Success | 209 |
A Spiritual Life | 223 |
Years of Illness | 236 |
A Period of Disturbance 19891990 | 250 |
The Struggle for Life | 262 |
Restlessness | 96 |
Adelaide and London | 108 |
Gothic Fantasies and Doubles | 118 |
The Terrible Sad Scent of Weddings | 125 |
Return to Australia | 135 |
The Search for Fame | 147 |
Postscript | 270 |
Acknowledgements | 273 |
| 275 | |
List of Artworks and Photographs | 297 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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