| dbo:abstract
|
- William More Adey, més conegut com a More Adey , va ser un crític d'art, editor i esteta anglès. Va ser coeditor de la revista , però potser és més conegut per haver estat amic i membre del cercle íntern d'Oscar Wilde des de la dècada de 1890 fins a la mort de Wilde el 1900. Com a defensor de Wilde durant el seu judici i empresonament, Adey va visitar-lo a la presó de Reading, va intentar negociar en nom dels interessos del gaoled com el seu tutor de facto, i va supervisar una col·lecció que es va utilitzar per comprar necessitats vitals, com roba, del seu alliberament. Adey va ser també company de Lord Alfred Douglas el 1895, i amic proper del poeta des de la dècada de 1890 fins al 1913. El biògraf de Douglas, , es refereix a Adey com "un homosexual del que, entre els seus companys, era i és anomenat un tipus 'discret'". Adey també va desenvolupar una relació professional i de parella de 15 anys amb un altre bon amic de Wilde, Robbie Ross. Quan Douglas i Ross es van enfrontar en els tribunals el 1913 en el cas de difamació d', Adey va testificar a favor de Ross, cosa que va fer que Douglas tallés els seus llaços amb el seu antic amic. Adey va ser editor adjunt de la revista The Burlington Magazine el novembre de 1910, i va exercir com a coeditor, en col·laboració amb Roger Fry, des de gener de 1914 fins a maig de 1919. Adey, per tant, es pot veure com un punt de connexió entre els estetes londinencs de la dècada de 1890 i el cercle de Bloomsbury, que va prendre importància una generació més tard. Se li atribueixen més de trenta articles firmats a la revista, així com nombroses notes i opinions sense signar. També se li atribueix haver introduït una forta apreciació iconogràfica a la revista. La mort de Ross a l'octubre de 1918 va ser un cop per a Adey, que va escriure en una carta a un amic en comú cinc dies després de la pèrdua que "ningú podrà ser per mi el que ell ha estat". Ross va fer la seva exparella el principal beneficiari del seu testimoni, però en un punt desconegut de la dècada de 1920 Adeyva ser superat per problemes mentals i va haver de ser confinat en un centre de cura de llarga estada. Adey morir sota tractament el 1942; en un breu homenatge la coeditora inicial de la revista The Burlington Magazine, Barbara Pezzini, el va descriure així el maig de 2010: "More Adey sovint ha estat descrit com un home tímid i apocat i la seva tràgica mort en una institució de salut mental el 1942, després d'haver perdut el contacte fins i tot amb els seus amics més pròxims, semblava tacar de manera retrospectiva tota la seva vida". (ca)
- William More Adey, known universally as More Adey (1858 – 29 January 1942), was an English art critic, editor and aesthete. He was a co-editor of The Burlington Magazine, but is perhaps best known for having been a friend and member of the inner circle of Oscar Wilde from the early 1890s until Wilde's death in 1900. As a defender of Wilde during his trial and imprisonment, Adey visited the fallen author in Reading Gaol, attempted to negotiate on behalf of the gaoled writer's interests as his de facto guardian, and oversaw a collection that was used to purchase necessities of life, including clothes, for him upon his release. Adey was also a partner of Lord Alfred Douglas in 1895, and a close friend of the poet from the 1890s until 1913. Douglas's biographer, Rupert Croft-Cooke, refers to Adey as "a homosexual of what, among his fellows, was and is, called the 'discreet' kind." Adey also developed a professional relationship and 15-year life partnership with Wilde's other good friend, Robbie Ross. When Douglas and Ross faced each other in court in 1913 in the Arthur Ransome libel case, Adey testified in Ross's favour, which caused Douglas to sever his ties with his former friend. Adey became assistant editor of the Burlington Magazine in November 1910, and served as co-editor, in partnership with Roger Fry, from January 1914 until May 1919. Adey can thus be seen as a point of connection between the aesthetes of the London 1890s and the Bloomsbury circle that came to prominence a generation later. He is credited with over thirty bylined articles in the magazine, as well as numerous unsigned notes and reviews, and is credited with bringing a strong iconographic appreciation to the magazine. Ross's death in October 1918 was a blow to Adey, who wrote in a letter to a mutual friend five days after the bereavement that "no one can ever be to me what he has been". Ross made his former partner the principal beneficiary of his will, but at an unknown point in the 1920s Adey was overcome by mental challenges and had to be confined in a place of long-term care. Adey died under care in 1942; in a brief tribute to the Burlington Magazine's early co-editor, Barbara Pezzini described him in May 2010 as follows: "More Adey has often been described as a shy and diffident man, and his tragic death in a mental health institution in 1942, after having lost contact with even his closest friends, seemed to taint retrospectively his whole life." (en)
|
| rdfs:comment
|
- William More Adey, més conegut com a More Adey , va ser un crític d'art, editor i esteta anglès. Va ser coeditor de la revista , però potser és més conegut per haver estat amic i membre del cercle íntern d'Oscar Wilde des de la dècada de 1890 fins a la mort de Wilde el 1900. Com a defensor de Wilde durant el seu judici i empresonament, Adey va visitar-lo a la presó de Reading, va intentar negociar en nom dels interessos del gaoled com el seu tutor de facto, i va supervisar una col·lecció que es va utilitzar per comprar necessitats vitals, com roba, del seu alliberament. (ca)
- William More Adey, known universally as More Adey (1858 – 29 January 1942), was an English art critic, editor and aesthete. He was a co-editor of The Burlington Magazine, but is perhaps best known for having been a friend and member of the inner circle of Oscar Wilde from the early 1890s until Wilde's death in 1900. As a defender of Wilde during his trial and imprisonment, Adey visited the fallen author in Reading Gaol, attempted to negotiate on behalf of the gaoled writer's interests as his de facto guardian, and oversaw a collection that was used to purchase necessities of life, including clothes, for him upon his release. (en)
|
