{"product_id":"living-well-is-the-best-revenge-9780870708978","title":"Living Well Is the Best Revenge","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Lost Generation chronicle of a glamorous couple and a great American modernist painter First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author  Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and Sara Murphy  two American expatriates who formed an extraordinary circle of friends in France during the 1920s. First in Paris and then in the seaside town of Antibes  they played host to a cast of some of the most memorable artists and writers of the era  including Cole Porter  Pablo Picasso  Fernand Lger  Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. It was in Paris that Gerald Murphy first encountered Cubist painting  which prompted him to embark on an all-too-brief career as a painter--roughly from 1922 to 1929--during which he produced 15 works  seven of which survive  and every one of which is a unique American modernist masterpiece. This dazzling phase of work was brought to a close in 1929  when one of the Murphys sons  Patrick  was diagnosed with tuberculosis and the family returned to New York. When their second son  Boath  succumbed to meningitis in 1935  and Patricks death followed shortly thereafter in 1937  Murphy hung up his brush. Despite the brevity of Murphys oeuvre  the intensity of its conception and its recently acknowledged status as a crucial precedent to Pop art have elevated Murphys reputation considerably. In 1974  The Museum of Modern Art mounted the first Gerald Murphy retrospective. Illustrated with nearly 70 photographs from the Murphys family album and with a special section on Murphys paintings  Living Well presents a fascinating Lost Generation chronicle as charming and enticing as the couple themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951495634997,"sku":"ByrdShop_087070897X","price":337.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780870708978.jpg?v=1788110053","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/living-well-is-the-best-revenge-9780870708978","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}