02447cam a2200325 i 4500 892820162 TxAuBib 20230919120000.0 230622s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023022364 9780063066410 HRD 32.99 0063066416 HRD 32.99 TxAuBib rda Wallace, Christopher, author. Twentieth-century man [BOOK] : the wild life of Peter Beard / Christopher Wallace. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] xiii, 272 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard embodied the extremes of his time: grand adventurer and sexually voracious partier, friend of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jackie Onassis to Andy Warhol to Karen Blixen. And Beard had a passion—probably more like an obsession—with the faults of the entire human experiment, with the ways in which our consumption of the world’s resources have come to consume us all. Beard’s outsize life and character—his death-defying documentation of both the endangered wildlife of Africa, and, closer to home, some of the world’s most beautiful women for a range of fashion magazines—animate this lively but authoritative biography. The journalist Christopher Wallace, long fascinated by Beard’s artistic legacy, adventurous spirit, and hard-partying persona, came to know him well later in Beard’s life. Capturing the varied social and cultural scenes that Beard moved through with glamorous ease over five decades, Wallace also makes a powerful case for the lasting impact of his work. Provided by publisher. 20230919. Beard, Peter H Peter Hill 1938-2020. Photographers United States Biography. Artists United States Biography. Adventure and adventurers United States Biography. Biographies.