Robert montgomery biography book
Monty: A Biography of Montgomery Clift
What happened ? The patrician Clift became a huge sex symbol in the bland Eisenhower 50s. He couldn't live up to this image for his same-sex double life fried his brain. Elizabeth Taylor adored him; singer-with-a-past Libby Holman protected him. Needy drama coach Mira Rostova, who died recently, age 99, insisted on control. She was smitten.
Author LaGuardia, who later died of AIDS, has insights into Monty's furies that others (with media pals behind 'em) lack, and the writing is top-notch. "Men and women loved him for his masculine grace and looks," he writes. "Bobby-soxers screeched when his sensitive face loomed in movie theaters." Moguls bent to his demands. "He achieved power in Hollywood passively, without deviousness." His collapse and death is the darkest American Tragedy.
MontyÕs Grandfather: Sir Robert Montgomery, GCSI, KCB, LLD, 1809-87
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Author: Brian Montgomery
Format: Hardback
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A biography of Sir Robert Montgomery, a British colonial administrator in India, who was the grandfather of Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein. The book covers his career from his entry into the civil service to his roles as Chief Commissioner of Oudh, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, and Member of the Council of India. The book also highlights his role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and his views on Indian affairs., Condition Remarks: Very Good, , Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, Pages intact, no marks, notes or highlighting, ,
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Brian Montgomery
Format: Hardback
Remarks on Condition :
A biography of Sir Robert Montgomery, a British colonial administrator in India, who was the grandfather of Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein. The book covers his career from his entry into the civil service to his roles as Chief Commissioner of Oudh, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, and Member of the Council of India. The book also highlights his role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and his views on Indian affairs., Condition Remarks: Very Good, , Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, Pages intact, no marks, notes or highlighting, ,
Robert Montgomery is a British contemporary artist well known for his work in public space. He makes light works, billboard poems, fire poems, paintings and watercolours. His work brings text art closer to the language of poetry. He represented the UK in the 2012 Kochi Biennale and the 2016 Yinchuan Biennale. His work is in museum collections across the world including the Albright Knox in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He has had solo museum projects at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City, and the Cer Modern Museum in Ankara. His work was recently included in the Musée du Louvre exhibition “La Suite de l’Histoire” in Paris. His work is hugely popular on the internet, the piece “The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You” has been shared online more than 200 million times.
"To encounter the work of Robert Montgomery is to make a tender encounter whose tenderness is enhanced by the public, communal quality of his work. To encounter his work is to have your body filled with a sad thunder and your head filled with a sad light. He is a complete artist and works in language, light, paper, space. He engages completely with the urban world with a translucent poetry. His work arrives at us through a kind of lucid social violence. No one has blended language, form and light in such a direct way."
Dane Weatherman. Black & Blue Journal
"Yes to this, and yes again. It's democratic art and democratic literature. I'd love to see (more of) it here in Britain."
Edward Lucie-Smith
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
Born 1972, Chapelhall, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education
BA Edinburgh College of Art, 1st Class Honours 1993
MFA Edinburgh College of Art 1995
Core Program Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1995-97
Visiting Professorships
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