Naked Portrait: A Memoir Of Lucian Freud
Author: Rose Boyt
ISBN: 978-1035024919
Price: Rs. 1099.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
At the back of a cupboard, not long after the death of her father, Lucian Freud, Rose Boyt came across an old cardboard box containing hundreds of typed pages, numbered and neatly stacked. It was her half-forgotten diary from 1978, when she was nineteen. As she remembered it, the portrait she sat for then was benign, the sittings arduous but uncontroversial. But reading the diary, she was shocked. She had completely erased how difficult the process had been, how many of his anecdotes, though entertaining, were way more lurid than she remembered and how unmanageable he could be. Naked Portrait explores Boyts complicated relationship with her adored father, the power imbalance in their relationship and her adulation of him. It is also a viscerally honest account of complex family dynamics, of a difficult childhood and the vulnerability of young women, told with great love and compassion.
Browse this title within our Theory & Criticism collection. Edition details: Paperback, English, 352 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1035024919.
About the Author
Rose Boyt was born in London and as a child lived on a cargo ship trading in the Baltic and beyond. With her mother and siblings she emigrated to the Caribbean, but the family was repatriated. She left home when she was fifteen and in the seventies began to take photographs and had a Saturday job at the punk shop Seditionaries. In the eighties she worked as a DJ and on the door of the Café De Paris, and is the author of three novels.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback
- ISBN Reference
- 978-1035024919
- Publisher
- Picador
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What is this book about?
At the back of a cupboard, not long after the death of her father, Lucian Freud, Rose Boyt came across an old cardboard box containing hundreds of typed pages, numbered and neatly stacked. It was her half-forgotten diary from 1978, when she was nineteen. As she remembered it, the portrait she sat...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Theory & Criticism and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Rose Boyt.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this for its raw honesty and rare access to the private world behind a legendary artist. This is not just a memoir of Lucian Freud, but a brave, intimate reckoning with power, love, memory and vulnerability. Through rediscovered diaries, you experience the emotional cost of art, family and admiration up close. Thoughtful, unsettling and beautifully written, it’s a premium literary memoir that stays with you long after the last page.
- Published by Picador.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 352.
Catalog Description
At the back of a cupboard, not long after the death of her father, Lucian Freud, Rose Boyt came across an old cardboard box containing hundreds of typed pages, numbered and neatly stacked. It was her half-forgotten diary from 1978, when she was nineteen. As she remembered it, the portrait she sat for then was benign, the sittings arduous but uncontroversial. But reading the diary, she was shocked. She had completely erased how difficult the process had been, how many of his anecdotes, though entertaining, were way more lurid than she remembered and how unmanageable he could be. Naked Portrait explores Boyts complicated relationship with her adored father, the power imbalance in their...
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