Main entry:

Vyner, Harriet.

Title & Author:

Groovy Bob : the life and times of Robert Fraser / Harriet Vyner.

Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 1999.

Description:

xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
An aesthete in the making 1937-1950 -- The best club in the world 1950-1955 -- A bit of an amusing character 1955-1957 -- Garden of enchantment 1958-1962 -- Belgravia pansies 1962-1965 -- Groovy Bob 1965-1967 -- Swinging London 1967 -- Grooving on magick current 1968-1969 -- Los days 1970-1975 -- The ruffian on the stairs 1975-1968.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: Notations by Cedric Price.
Library copy: Presentation copy to Cedric Price from Faber and Faber (see letter from Faber and Faber in Related Ephemera).
In Related Ephemera: 1 invitation to the launch party of "Groovy Bob" with handwritten telephone number of author on verso, 1 typescript on letterhead of Faber and Faber, 3 reprographic copies, 1 press release and order form for "Non-plan: Essays on freedom, participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism"

Summary:

"In this new biography, the first to have the complete co-operation of Fraser's family and friends, Harriet Vyner has not only recreated an extraordinary figure but an exciting and colourful era - sixties London. Told through the voices of those who knew Fraser best - Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Jim Dine, Kenneth Anger, Dennis Hopper and Vyner herself - Groovy Bob is both a biography and a portrait of the most exhilarating period in post-war British social history." "Fraser brought together many of the elements that made up Swinging London: pop music, fashion, drugs, art and cinema. Yet he was himself a curious representative of this culture. He was an Eton-educated, former Kings African Rifles officer, the son of a highly successful banker, who bridged two very different worlds. He had, Jagger said, an aura; he was a tastemaker, a hedonist, a lousy businessman whose artists adored him, a promiscuous homosexual who avoided the gay scene. By the time of his death from AIDS in 1986 he had become an almost forgotten figure, his vision no longer in tune with the conservatism of the eighties from which the sixties was a brief departure."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0571196276
9780571196272

Subject:

Fraser, Robert, 1937-1986.
Art dealers England Biography.
Arts, British England London 20th century.
Marchands d'œuvres d'art Angleterre Biographies.
Arts britanniques Angleterre Londres 20e siècle.
Art dealers.
Arts, British.
Manners and customs.
London (England) Social life and customs 20th century.
Londres (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
England.
England London.

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Cedric Price Library
Cedric Price fonds
Presentation copies. Faber and Faber

Holdings:

Location: Library main price related ephemera 267608
Call No.: BIB 199581
Status: Available

Location: Library main price 267607
Call No.: BIB 199581
Status: Available