Bunuel by Baxter, John - 1999

New York, New York, U. S. A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers. New with no dust jacket. 1999. First Thus. Softcover. From a review by Publishers Weekly (starred review) : "This vibrant, anecdote-packed biography. Provides an intimate portrait of a secretive man. " Luis Bunuel was dangerous, enigmatic, elusive, and never dispassionate. He had brilliant friends and made famous enemies. He helped Picasso hang the Guernica. He clashed with Greta Garbo and attended orgies staged by Charlie Chaplin. Bunuel, too, was a man of exceptional genius as well as unexpected charm, and he stands among the greatest creative artists of the 20th century. Disguising his sensitivity in cynicism and a calculated use of the bizarre, Bunuel's films, made over a 50-year period from his 1928 Un Chien Andalou - with its famous image of a razor drawn across a girl's eyeball - to a late blossoming in the 1960s and 1970s with Belle de Jour, Viridiana, and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, still retain their power to shock, outrage, delight, and surprise. With the cooperation of the Bunuel estate and access to unpublished documents, letters, and family records, this superb, new biography for the first time brings the cryptic personality and cinematic genius of Luis Bunuel startlingly into the light. 324 pages including selected bibliography and an index. Includes 16 pages of notated photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .