Portraits of Genius Friends

by Sandra Hochman (Created by)

Overview

Sandra Hochman seemingly knew everyone, and throughout her life, she captured those friends' likenesses in one-of-a-kind watercolors that now adorn the walls of her Manhattan apartment. Hochman's Portraits of Genius Friendsis a rare glimpse into the world of one of America's singular literary voices and reveals a life lived amongst some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, including Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, George Plimpton, Phillip Roth, Milos Forman, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Elie Wiesel, Leonard Bernstein, Allen Ginsburg, James Baldwin, and, believe it or not, many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683367338
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

The author of six novels plus four new literary works from Turner Publishing, Sandra Hochman is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet with six volumes of poetry. She also authored two nonfiction books, directed a 1973 documentary, Year of the Woman, currently enjoying a renaissance, as well as collaborated on a number of musical productions in New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she was a columnist for Harpers Bazaar. She also ran her own foundation, "You're an Artist Too" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to teach poetry and song writing to children ages 7–12 for fifteen years.

Table of Contents

Allen Ginsberg - Anais Nin - Andy Warhol - Ariele Leve - Arthur Miller - Carmen de Lavallade - Danny Kaye - Dick Shawn - Dimitri Shostakovich - Dorothy Butler Farrell - Elie Weisel - Gary William Friedman - George Plimpton - Gunter Grass - Harold Nicholas - Harold Robbins - Henry Miller - Igor Stravinsky - Ivry Gitliss - Jack Kerouac - James Baldwin - James T. Farrell - John Cage - John Cheever - Jules Feiffer - Julie Arenal - Larry Rivers - Leonard Bernstein - Marcel Marceau - Marianne Moore - Milos Forman - Norman mailer - Pablo Neruda - Pablo Picasso - Paul Taylor - Philip Roth - Ralph Ellison - Ralph Nader - Robert Lowell - Samuel Beckett - Saul Bellow - Sheldon Harnick - Sherman Yellen - Sylvia Fine - Truman Capote - W.H. Auden - William Greaves

Preface

Every genius leads us from darkness into light. Because my destiny led me into marriage with Ivry Gitlis, a concert violinist who was a protégé and friend of Jascha Heifetz as well as a star in the Parisian world of the arts, I had the opportunity to meet many of his genius friends. Later, when I moved back to the United States and won the Yale Younger Poets award, I lived in a world of painters, poets, dancers, actors, and musicians who were busy creating and sharing their magic with me. Andy Warhol said, “The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.” Although I’ve left many people that I knew and appreciated out of this book, it still honors some of the incandescent people in the arts who were busy delivering messages to eternity.