Axel Madsen fu uno scrittore il cui lavoro esplorò frequentemente temi di sessualità e omosessualità nell'arte e nella cultura. Divenne noto per le sue dettagliate e profonde biografie di artisti, esaminando i loro processi creativi e le loro vite personali. La sua scrittura si distinse per la capacità di svelare le motivazioni nascoste e le pressioni sociali che modellarono i percorsi artistici dei suoi soggetti. Il lavoro di Madsen offre uno sguardo profondo sull'intreccio tra vita personale e artistica.
Sonia Delaunay, wife of painter Robert Delaunay, and co-founder of the Orphist school in 1910, was the center of a brilliant circle in Paris. Madsen offers a rich and compelling look at this fascinating and influential woman, the first living female artist to have a retrospective show at the Louvre.
Viele der Filmidole waren lesbisch oder bisexuell - ein absolutes Tabu im Hollywood der 20er bis 50er Jahre. Der "Nähkreis" war für viele Stars der einzige Ort, an dem sie sich selber sein konnten.
An incisive biography explores the life of actress Barbara Stanwyck, her rise to stardom, her marriages, and her part the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s. Reprint.
Hollywood's Greatest Secret : Female Stars who Loved Other Women
This is the documented story of some of the most glamorous women in the world who lived two lives--in public as larger-than-life romantic heroines of the screen, and in private as lesbians or bisexuals. From the early years of the "talkies" through the beginning of the 1950s, they were secretly known as the Sewing Circle, and this is their story. Among them were Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead, Katherine Cornell, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Crawford. Others whose secret lives are divulged for the first time: Maude Adams, Lynn Fontanne, Myrna Loy, Edith Head, Janet Gaynor, Jill Esmond, Elsa Lanchester, Isadora Duncan, Laurette Taylor, Libby Holman, Marjorie Main, Agnes Moorehead, and Dame Judith Anderson.--Publisher description.
Biografie van de Franse modeontwerpster en grondlegster van een groot couturehuis (1883-1971).
A biography of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who revolutionized fashion and was a force and legend in her time.
Eine Biographie, die weit über das Leben der Biographierten hinausgeht und das politische Leben in Frankreich der Jahrhundertmitte überblickt
