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Riko: Seductions of an Artist

Riko: Seductions of an Artist

Dailey, Denise B.

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ISBN10: 0999406914
ISBN13: 9780999406915
Publisher: Blurb
Published: Jan 21 2018
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Paperback edition. A biography of a Czech artist educated in the 1920s and 30s in the most artistically revolutionary capitals of the world: Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Paris, who gets caught in the Nazi dragnet through his marriage to a Czech Jew. The story follows their double exiles, first to war-time England, and then to the United States, where they delight and despair over re-establishing Riko as a first-class artist in the radically evolving cultural decades from the 50s to the 80s. *** READER REVIEWS *** Not only does Dailey bring vividly to life two endlessly fascinating main characters, but, in addition, she brings alive the whole panorama of European history almost from the First World War until a daring visit she herself makes to the Eastern bloc in pursuit of her protagonists' early story, an adventure that she presents with bone-chilling vividness. Amid so much devastation, dislocation, and privation, there was so much artistic ferment. In these pages, which introduce us to a Czech-born painter who should be better known--and would be, did he not keep sabotaging himself--are Kafka, Kokoschka, and Leger, miraculously creating their masterworks, while the world keeps crumbling around them. The writing is controlled, informed, and capable of images of hallucinatory intensity. It succeeds in persuading us that Dailey's painter friend, J, E. Milkeska, was a painter--as well as a character--to be reckoned with. *** A highly sensitive and insightful book. The character portrayal of both Greta and Riko is right on (I knew them both). The book brings out both their strengths and frustrations. Bravo to an outstanding piece of literature.

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