Book Review - Earth, Air, Fire and Water
Book Review of Earth Air Fire and Water in Time Magazine, December 4, 1962:
Anyone who dares to delve into the condition of 20th century American life is most probably doing it to earn a doctorate. Not so author Alexander Eliot, 43, an out-of-place, out-of-sorts, self-styled recluse who, on the pine-clad slopes of Mount Pentelikon, near [...]
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
(New York: Time, Inc., 1957)
“American art matters,” declared Eliot in his pitch to write the definitive history of American painting. His compelling anecdotes about the artists, as well as over 1,000 superb color plates, proves that it does. In 1962 John F. Kennedy selected Eliot’s extraordinary and complete history of [...]
Eliot’s Books
Most famous for his books on myths:
The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters, and Others (New American Library, 1990)
Introduced by Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade
The Timeless Myths: How Ancient Legends Influence the Modern World, New York: Truman Talley Books/Meridian, 1997
The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, Sacred, and Scientific
Mythologies (New York: Continuum, 1993)
Myths (New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976)
Zen [...]
Alexander Eliot
“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible?” Alexander Eliot
Born April 28, 1919, in Northampton, Massachusetts, Alexander Eliot has published eighteen books - including books on art, mythology, history, and novels. He is also the author of hundreds of published essays [...]
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
By Frederick Franck
In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors–social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders–reflect with poignant candor on our shared human condition and attempt to define a core set of human values in our rapidly changing socity.
Contributors include:
The Dalai Lama
Wilma Mankiller
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Love Play
Love Play (New York: NAL, 1966)
“A big, fat, lewd, philosophic work of fiction, pure and impure … a free-for-all with Rabelais as a referee.†Thus Alexander Eliot describes Love Play, a work of dazzling verbal pyrotechnics, razor-keen wit, and outrageously hilarious (and to some readers, no doubt, (simply outrageous) sexual high jinks.
Love Play is the [...]
Art Editor at Time Magazine
For the fifteen years that he was Art Editor at Time Magazine, Alex’s articles were published every week. From 1945 to the early 1960’s, he met virtually every artist - aspiring, important, visiting, and otherwise - who passed through New York City. Salvador Dali became a special friend - not only because of their shared [...]
Proud Youth
Review of Proud Youth in FYI, Time Inc., September 11, 1953:
For some seven years, TIME Art Editor Alexander Eliot has climbed out of bed at 6:30 in the morning, spun a few fictional situations through his mind while strolling through Central Park, and arrived at the T & L Bldg. by eight o’clock for a [...]