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Hace 3 días · Isherwood fue un precursor de la ficción gay en Estados Unidos, un maestro de la observación social que plasmaba con gran acierto, elegancia y una prosa bril...
Hace 4 días · It is based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1929–1930 Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age as the Nazis rise to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around American ...
Hace 2 días · Leaving aside its possible merits and/or shortcomings, the airing of this TV-dramatisation was indicative of an on-going fascination with Isherwood’s portrayal of the decadent, Nazi-ridden Berlin of the Weimar Republic, captured most famously in his Berlin Novels and in Bob Fosse’s 1972 film Cabaret.
Hace 3 días · Isherwood was gay, and this was a central theme in his works, many of which were semi-autobiographical. In 1953 he met Don Bachardy, and the couple remained together until Isherwood’s death. Bachardy painted Isherwood’s final days, during which he suffered from prostate cancer, and these were collected and published in the book Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood .
Hace 6 horas · But the work that represented his true passion and visionary boldness was his gorgeously constructed, deeply erotic black-and-white images of the male figure in various stages of undress – and often fully nude with genitalia on display. These images have gleaming elegance, and joyfully celebrate erotic male beauty. Male nude by George Platt ...
Hace 2 días · In the US, I was afraid of being shot.” Despite some success and a trip to Europe, where his work was also appreciated, it was as if Cole was damaged by what he saw. The camera is often posited as a site of calm neutrality. In “Goodbye to Berlin” Christopher Isherwood famously begins by asserting his objectivity: “I am camera”.
Hace 2 días · Having had a long Broadway run, many awards, and numerous revivals on the Great White Way and around the world, “Cabaret” belongs in the pantheon of great stage musicals. Based on writer Christopher Isherwood’s experiences in Weimar and early Nazi Germany, it acts as a chilling reminder of the fragility of freedom and democracy.
