Half the Perfect World - Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 Genoni PaulPaperback / softback
Half the Perfect World - Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 Genoni PaulPaperback / softback Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community…
Specifikacia Half the Perfect World - Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 Genoni PaulPaperback / softback
Half the Perfect World - Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 Genoni PaulPaperback / softback
Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydra from 1955 to 1964, and is richly illustrated by LIFE Magazine eye-witness photographer James Burke. What brought this group to Hydra? Fostered by celebrated Australian literary couple Charmian Clift and George Johnston, this fabled 'colony' came to include renowned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and numerous other writers and artists, including many whose youthful ambitions were never realised.
And what does their story reveal about the post-war world? What life did they live there? Looking at the Hydra expatriates through their writing, letters, diaries and photographs, Genoni and Dalziell identify a deep restlessness within a rapidly changing time of emerging social movements and counter-cultures, travel, tourism and leisure, shifting geo-political realities,