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010 $a 2006015433
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020 $a1568986122 (alk. paper)
024 3 $a9781568986128
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM69331340
035 $a(NNC)5995631
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050 00 $aPR6019.A55$bZ68 2007
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100 1 $aHooks, Margaret.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92087850
245 10 $aSurreal Eden :$bEdward James and Las Pozas /$cMargaret Hooks ; with photographs by Sally Mann [and others].
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPrinceton Architectural Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a183 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color), color map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 174-176) and index.
520 1 $a"Deep in the jungle-covered mountains of Mexico, amid bucolic waterfalls, birds, butterflies, and wild orchids, lies one of the best-kept secrets in the world of art and architecture: Las Pozas, a spectacularly surreal assemblage of enormous concrete sculptures and structures springing from the lush vegetation. It is the extraordinary achievement of one of the least-known, most compelling figures of our time, the eccentric English aristocrat Edward James - poet, patron, and architect of dreams." "Born into the lap of luxury - his father was a scion of the American Dodge dynasty, and his mother was rumored to be the daughter of King Edward VII - James inherited a vast fortune at a young age and lavished it on an ostentatious lifestyle and ambitious artistic ventures. He amassed one of the finest collections of Surrealist art as the patron of such renowned artists as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Leonora Carrington. He financed and collaborated on Dali's Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair, inspired Dali's iconic Lobster Telephone, and is the subject of Magritte's famous painting, La reproduction interdite." "But Edward James was more than mere patron. He was a poet and artist in his own right, publishing many books and traveling in circles that included a number of luminaries and celebrities, among them Isamu Noguchi, Aldous Huxley, Igor Stravinsky, and Christopher Isherwood. Along the way he fell in love with the exotic Viennese dancer Tilly Losch, for whom he financed a landmark series of Balanchine ballets, including the legendary Weill-Brecht collaboration, The Seven Deadly Sins. Edward and Tilly soon wed, though the marriage was short-lived and disastrous, and the scandalous divorce sent a shockwave throughout English high society." "Abandoning England in the late 1930s, James moved to an artists' colony in Taos, New Mexico, then to Los Angeles, and finally to Mexico, where he and his Yaqui companion, Plutarco Gastelum, discovered the remote town of Xilitla. Over the next four decades he set about creating his crowning achievement. Working with local artisans of Otomi and Mayan origin, he built soaring edifices of colored concrete, enormous sculptures of hands, serpents, and exotic flowers, and grand parapets in the sky." "Award-winning author Margaret Hooks tells the fascinating story of Edward James, from his childhood at the grand estate of West Dean in England to his wild exploits in New York City and finally to his masterwork, Las Pozas - illustrated with previously unpublished photographs by Sally Mann, Michael Schuyt, Lourdes Almeida, Marilyn Westlake, Luis Felix, and Avery Danziger, as well as recently unearthed drawings by James himself."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aJames, Edward,$d1907-1984$xHomes and haunts$zMexico$zXilitla (San Luis Potosí)
650 0 $aEclecticism in architecture$zMexico$zXilitla (San Luis Potosí)
651 0 $aLas Pozas (Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006040624
650 0 $aArt patrons$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009115893
700 1 $aMann, Sally,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068592
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006015433.html
852 00 $bglx$hPR6019.A55$iZ68 2007