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Overview‘I want to know what I am, what I want, what I can do, what is real, what is lovely.’ The post-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912–77) was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. Image of a Man is the first book to provide a comprehensive critical reading of Vaughan’s extraordinary journal, which spans thirty-eight years and sixty-one volumes to form a major literary work and a fascinating document of changing times. From close textual analysis of the original manuscripts, this book uncovers the attitudes and arguments that shaped and reshaped Vaughan’s identity as a man and as an artist. It reveals a continual process of self-construction through journal-writing, undertaken to navigate the difficulties of conscientious objection, the complications of desire as a gay man, and the challenges of making meaningful art. By focussing on Vaughan’s journal-writing in the context of its many influences and its centrality to his art practice, Image of a Man offers not only a compelling new critical biography of a significant yet underappreciated artist, but also a sustained argument on the constructed nature of the ‘artist’ persona in early and mid-twentieth-century culture – and the opportunities afforded by journal and diary forms to make such constructions possible. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alex BelseyPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 77 ISBN: 9781802078244ISBN 10: 180207824 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 03 February 2023 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Image of a Man: Introduction Outsider 1. War and the Objector 2. Society and the Observer Creator 3. Autobiography and the Intellectual 4. Art and the Artist Curator 5. Self-Editorship and 'Keith Vaughan' The Diaristic Impulse and Self-Construction: An Afterword BibliographyReviews'Belsey writes well about Vaughan's attitude to warfare as a conscientious objector, and how, reduced to a mere cog in the Non-Combatant Corps, he used the early part of the journal to construct an identity for himself. We are also shown Vaughan's determination to improve and evolve as a writer. In this he succeeded, and his journal is not only an invaluable social document but, at its best, a considerable work of literature.' Peter Parker, Times Literary Supplement 'Belsey writes well about Vaughan’s attitude to warfare as a conscientious objector, and how, reduced to a mere cog in the Non-Combatant Corps, he used the early part of the journal to construct an identity for himself. We are also shown Vaughan’s determination to improve and evolve as a writer. In this he succeeded, and his journal is not only an invaluable social document but, at its best, a considerable work of literature.' Peter Parker, Times Literary Supplement Author InformationAlex Belsey is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Life-writing Research (CLWR) at King’s College London, researching and writing on diary and journal forms, experimental auto/biography, and autofiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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