![]() ![]() Also includes additional items that are related to individual titles such as book jackets, notes, and letters, as well as some interspersed and related correspondence. The drafts include the following genres: autograph manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and print often annotated by Vidal and occasionally annotated by an editor, a director, or stage manager of a play, television program, or film. Drafts of Vidal's novels, theatrical plays, television scripts, screenplays, essays, poetry, short stories, and speeches. ![]() This collection includes: materials documenting his early life, correspondence, literary and screen writing compositions, speeches, interviews, political papers and ephemera for campaigns, legal and business records, biographical materials, fan mail, films and video tapes, photographs and drawings, clippings on his life and subject files he compiled, papers of his companion Howard Austen, a small amount of family papers, and compositions written by others sent to him, among other materials. The Gore Vidal papers include a variety of materials reflecting his personal, literary, political, and business life. ![]()
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He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. ![]() Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist, and literary critic. ![]() ![]() ![]() He died after a long illness on Augat the age of 74. An illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art. He also wrote a book by the same name about the series. ![]() It was seen by more than 25 million viewers when it ran first on BBC and then on PBS. ![]() He also hosted an eight-part documentary about the development of modernism from the Impressionists through Warhol entitled The Shock of the New. He wrote several books including The Fatal Shore, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America, Things I Didn't Know, and Rome. He was chief art critic for Time magazine for over 30 years. ![]() He left Australia and spent time in Italy before settling in London, where he became a well-known critical voice and wrote for several newspapers. The Shock of the New is a 1980 documentary series by Robert Hughes that was broadcast by the BBC. He pursued art criticism mostly as a sideline while painting, writing poetry and serving as a cartoonist for the weekly intellectual journal The Observer. Available in used condition with free delivery in the UK. He studied art and architecture at the University of Sydney. Buy The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change By Robert Hughes. Robert Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia on July 28, 1938. ![]() ![]() Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language' David Brin. ![]() 'Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science. I have no doubt that when this trilogy is complete we will have a masterpiece on our hands' For Winters Nights. 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