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PETER BEARD Taschen VOLUME ONE & VOLUME TWO Andy Warhol Francis Bacon

Beard, Peter; Beard, Nejma; Edwards, Owen; Aronson, Steven M.L. Peter Beard, Trade Edition. Germany: Taschen, 2008. ISBN-10: 383650877X. ISBN-13: 978-3836508773

Peter Beard, Trade Edition
Artist, diarist, collector, and writer Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He collaborated with Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali, he made diaries with Andy Warhol, worked on books with scientists like Dr. Norman Borlaug, Dr. Richard Laws, and Alistair Graham, and toured with Truman Capote, Terry Southern, and the Rolling Stones – all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. He delved into the world of fashion for its beautiful women, taking Vogue stars like Veruschka to Africa and bringing new ones back to the U.S. with him.

After spending time in Kenya and striking up a friendship with the author Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) in the early 1960s, Beard bought 50 acres next to her farm with the stipulation that he would film and write about the land and its flora and fauna. He witnessed the dawn of Kenya’s population explosion, which challenged finite resources and stressed animal populations – including the starving elephants of Tsavo dying by the tens of thousands in a wasteland of eaten trees. So he documented what he saw – with diaries, photographs, and collages. He went against the wind in publishing unique and sometimes shocking books of these works, including The End of the Game. The corpses were laid bare; the facts carefully recorded, sometimes in type and often by hand. Beard uses his photographs as a canvas onto which he superimposes multi-layered contact sheets, ephemera, found objects, newspaper clippings that are elaborately embellished with meticulous handwriting, old-master inspired drawings, and often swaths of animal blood used as paint

PETER BEARD VOLUME ONE & VOLUME TWO By PETER BEARD Introduction by Owen Edwards Published by Taschen, Hohenzollernring: Germany 2008. First Edition of this beautiful production. These 2 Books are Large thick Red buckram clothHARDCOVERS stamped in gilt, with illustrated endpages in Fine condition with a cloth Slipcase as issued with a slight corner bump. Size = 14 inches by 10 inches by 4 inches Total Weight around 11 pounds VOLUME ONE (PB1): 200 pages of diaries and 294 pages of the artist’s photographic collages + 5 fold-out; original essay by photo critic Owen Edwards. Nearly all the diaries and collages from the original book are included, plus two new collages finished in 2007. VOLUME TWO (PB2) about 168 pages which contains the following a BIOGRAPHY of Peter Beard on his personal history and cosmic philosophy interview with the artist by Steven M. L. Aronson in English, German & French language Text.

Book(More lots)
Number of Books
1
Subject
Autobiography, Photography
Author/ Illustrator
Peter Beard
Book Title
Peter Beard - 2 volumes
Condition
Fine
Publication year oldest item
2008
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Language
English, French and German
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Taschen
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
With slipcase
Dimensions
33.5×23 cm

Peter Beard
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Peter Beard
PeterBeardGiraffes-HogRanch2014-wiki.jpg
Beard in 2014
Born Peter Hill Beard
January 22, 1938
New York, United States
Disappeared March 31, 2020
Montauk, New York, U.S.
Died c. March 31/April 19, 2020
(aged 82)
Montauk Point, New York, U.S.
Body discovered Camp Hero State Park
April 19, 2020
Nationality American
Education Pomfret School
Alma mater Yale University
Occupation Artist
Spouse(s) Minnie Cushing Beard Coleman
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​(m. 1967; div. 1970)​
Cheryl Tiegs
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​(m. 1981; div. 1984)​
Nejma Khanum
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​(m. 1986; his death 2020)​
Children 1
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Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March 31/April 19, 2020) was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.[1]


Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Art
3 Personal life
4 Death
5 Publications
5.1 Selected books
5.2 Catalogues
6 Further reading
7 Filmography
7.1 Documentaries featuring Peter Beard
8 References
9 External links
Early life and education
Peter Beard was born in 1938 in New York, the son of Roseanne (Hoard) and Anson McCook Beard Jr., heir to a railroad fortune.[2][3] He was raised in New York City, Alabama, and Islip, Long Island. Beard began keeping diaries as a young boy and making photographs, as an extension of the diaries, at the age of 12.[4] A graduate of Pomfret School, he entered Yale University in 1957, with the intention of pursuing pre-med studies, only to switch his major to art history. At Yale, he was tapped into the secret society Scroll and Key. His mentors at Yale included Josef Albers, Richard Lindner[5] and Vincent Scully.[6] Beard graduated with a B.A. in 1961.

Inspired by earlier work such as Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen)'s Out of Africa, Beard traveled to Kenya upon graduation.[7] Working at Tsavo National Park, he photographed and documented the demise of 35,000 elephants and other wildlife, later to become the subject of his first book, The End of the Game.[8] During this time, Beard acquired Hog Ranch, a property near the Ngong Hills adjacent to the coffee farm owned by Blixen, which would become his lifelong home-base in East Africa.[4]

Art
Beard's photographs of Africa, African animals and journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1970s. Each of his works is unique, a combination of his photography with elements derived from his daily diary-keeping, a practice he continued until his death in 2020. These volumes contain newspaper clippings, dried leaves, insects, old sepia-toned photos, transcribed telephone messages, marginalia in India ink, photographs of women, quotes, found objects, and the like; these become incorporated, with original drawings and collage by Beard. Certain of his works incorporate animal blood, sometimes Beard's own blood (in sparing quantities), a painting medium the artist favored.[9]

He was a photographer for magazines including Vogue and Elle.[10]

The Peter Beard Studio and Archive was started by Peter and Nejma Beard, and is the primary source for artwork by Peter Beard. The Archive maintains a repository of published and unpublished written and visual material relating to the artist's life, work, projects, travels, exhibitions, and relations with his cohort.[1]

Beard's first exhibition was at the Blum Helman Gallery, New York City, in 1975. Landmark museum exhibitions have been held at the International Center of Photography, New York City, in 1977, and the Centre national de la photographie, Paris, in 1997. Gallery exhibitions followed in Berlin, London, Toronto, Madrid, Milan, Tokyo and Vienna. Beard's work is included in private collections throughout the world.[4]

In 2017, Beard was sued by actor David Spade, who purchased one of his works. Spade tried to resell a Peter Beard photograph that he had purchased from dealer Peter Tunney, but the unsigned work could not be authenticated.[11]

Personal life
Beard was one of three sons born to Roseanne (Hoard) Beard and Anson McCook Beard, Jr. A great-grandfather, Canadian-born James Jerome Hill, was founder of the Great Northern Railway in the United States in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Having made his fortune in the railroad business, James Jerome Hill was a great patron of the arts. All of his heirs were exposed to and owned great collections, presumably having a strong influence on Beard's interests in the arts and beauty.[12]

He married three times. His first wife was Mary "Minnie" Olivia Cochran Cushing (later Mrs James J. Coleman Jr.),[13] a society figure, granddaughter of artist Howard Gardiner Cushing, and a former assistant to the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.[14] They married in 1967 in Newport, Rhode Island[14] and divorced three years later.[15][16]

Next he was married to Cheryl Tiegs (formerly married to Stanley John Dragoti), the fashion model, from 1981 to 1984.[17][18]

His last wife was Nejma Khanum, a daughter of a judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya, whom he married in Montauk in 1986.[19] The couple had one child, a daughter, Zara (born 1988),[19] for whom his book, Zara's Tales,[20] was written.

In 1996, he was charged by an elephant[21] and gored in the right leg. After arriving at the hospital without a pulse, he was revived, and survived.[22][23]

Beard befriended and in some cases collaborated with many artists, including Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Francis Bacon, Karen Blixen, Truman Capote, Richard Lindner, and Salvador Dalí. He also photographed many other well-known people.[4] He appeared in Adolfas Mekas's film, Hallulujah the Hills, in 1963, at the first New York Film Festival.[10]

Death
On the afternoon of March 31, 2020 Beard, who was suffering from dementia and ill health after a stroke, wandered away from his Montauk, Long Island home. Despite exhaustive searches he was not found.[24]

On April 19, Beard's body was found by a hunter in a densely wooded area in Camp Hero State Park in Montauk Point, New York.[25] As of April 20 a cause of death had not been determined.[26][27]

Publications
Selected books
Graham, Alistair, and Beard, Peter (1973). Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society. ISBN 0-8212-0464-5
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