[New-Poetry] Bob Grumman

[Judy Prince]

Thanks, Anny.  Perhaps a film of Vincent Van Gogh's life other than the
Hollywood-style one can be made.  Talk about a man with demons!
Your mentioning Fitzgerald about whom much is made, brought to my mind
another writer, Englishwoman Marian Evans [Mary Ann Evans], known as George
Eliot, the author of the novel *Middlemarch.  A dear friend recently highly
recommended a biographical novel about her, titled *The World Before Her, by
Deborah Weisgall.  The book gets stunning reviews, so I just ordered it
through amazon.com, a hardback, for 53 cents plus postage!
If you're interested, you can read a customer review of the novel at
amazon.co.uk's site:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/product/0618746579/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_img?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Best,

Judy


2008/12/11 Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>

> It is easy to touch people at an emotional level. I think they wanted to
> portray Pollock a little too much like Van Gogh. You should read, if you are
> able [not because I doubt your capacities but because I did not manage to go
> through the book page after page - but skipped and went back several times]
> Van Gogh's correspondence to his brother Theo. At least with Van Gogh we
> have his own words. In this movie we witness a version of Pollock's life as
> seen by others who were all involved in selling his paintings.
> Whatever the truth, the movie is tragic.
> Another similar character the American society produced was F. Scott
> Fitzgerald. Both were given a success they were not able to deal with. And
> became victims of their own creature.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Judy Prince <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Agreed [about the film, at least], Anny.
>> Ed Harris's father had suggested that his son do the film because of the
>> close physical resemblance he saw of Ed to Pollock.  And what a performance
>> he gave of the self-agonising artist's personal and professional 'demons' in
>> all their unforgiving intensity.
>> I've always felt that Pollock's art works were stunning decorative pieces,
>> for which there need be no apologies, but he was continually tortured by the
>> thought that his work might *only* be 'like wallpaper'.
>>
>> We talked extensively about him on this list back in June, I believe, and
>> I thank you now for mentioning the film and its force.  It was---incredible
>> for a film---faithful to what is known about the facts of his life, as well
>> as it profoundly dramatised his emotional responses to a life so thickly
>> constrained by self-doubt.  All of that said, the movie amazingly managed, s
>> well, to involve us in his artistic process.  What a film!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> 2008/12/10 Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Am I reading right or am I still under the spell of Pollock by Ed Harris
>>> I just watched?
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