Caleb Ives Bach

Gebundenes Buch

Shadowing Botticelli's Beauty

Beschreibung

A suspenseful tale of Borgesian circularity, Shadowing Botticelli's Beauty features an unusual cast drawn from three distinct spheres: C.I.A. operatives running sensitive operations during the Cold War; players from the art world among them a painter-architect based in Buenos Aires, and from ages past, the Renaissance master, Sandro Botticelli; and colorful inhabitants of an elite, New England prep school. But throughout this sinuous tale of intrigue, there is the constancy of "Abel Baaker Charlie:" devoted husband; journeyman case officer; apprentice school master; autodidactic painter; and, last but not least, self-appointed art detective. While weathering the chaos of revolutions, personal tragedies, identity crises, a treacherous colleague, and radical career shifts, the novel's dauntless protagonist tenaciously stalks a lost masterpiece looted by a Nazi war criminal in the closing days of World War II. Baaker's story, which has a basis in fact, is told with the assuredness of a veteran insider privy to the clandestine realm of spies, the arcane province of art historians, and the twisted turf of private boarding schools. While making for a fine read, with its rewarding resolution, Shadowing Botticelli's Beauty ponders the opposing roles of chance and grand design in the destiny of its memorable characters.

Autor

Caleb Ives Bach was born in 1939 in Berkeley, California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and for nearly ten years he served as an officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. An NBC documentary called Spying for Uncle Sam (narrated by Edwin Newman) covered a few of his experiences during four tours of duty in Latin America and Europe. Thereafter, for two decades, he taught painting and art history at private boarding schools in Colorado and Massachusetts. Briefly, he also served as director of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. In 1991, as the N.E.H. Teacher-Scholar of the year for Massachusetts, he authored a detailed study of Saint Blaise as a theme in art. Over a twenty-year span, as a contributing editor for Américas Magazine, the bimonthly publication of the Organization of American States, he wrote eighty-five feature-length profiles of prominent Latin American artists, writers, and musicians. His own work as a painter has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and the Aspen Art Museum. He has also done murals under the auspices of the General Service Administration's Art in Architecture Program. He and his wife live in Andover, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Author Solutions Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780595518906
• ISBN-10: 0595518907
• Artikelnr.: 25692136