Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960

Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960
ISBN-10
1608195805
ISBN-13
9781608195800
Category
Fiction
Pages
67
Language
English
Published
2011-05-03
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
William Boyd

Description

Presents a fictional biography of a young, Abstract Expressionist artist living in the New York City of the 1950s who, after a trip to Europe to meet the masters of twentieth-century art, despairs of his talent and decides to end his life.

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