![]() ![]() There is a large inventory of prints, paintings and drawings available for purchase. Of all the artists working in western Canada that one can think of, Yates is the one who comes closest to resembling William Blake, the historical English giant. Richard Yates has been a very unique visionary artist, working from his experience, his surroundings, his mythic imagination and his mystic wonder. Modern Painters Gallery/Great Bear presented his work several times in the last twenty years. The Art Gallery of Alberta is home to a large collection of his prints. His work is in all major public collections: Canada Council Art Bank, Alberta Art Foundation, and the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. He has also produced handmade books on his own presses. Yates has participated in over 130 group exhibitions and 27 solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad, showing woodcut prints, etchings,Įngravings, silkscreen prints, linocuts, drawings, paintings and installations. A move to rural Manitoba followed, where he lived and worked for years. After the degree, a stint at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm followed and he returned to Edmonton to live and work for fifteen years. Returning to Canada, he earned an MFA in Printmaking at the world renowned Printmaking program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1984. He then attended the Instituto Allende in Mexico, the Banff Centre and Manchester Polytechnic in England. The lackluster sales and critical reception for Disturbing the Peace convinced many that "like Fitzgerald and so many others, he’d squandered his talent, drank it away." This reputation persisted until the following year when Yates published his acclaimed novel The Easter Parade.įor some period of time, Joe Pesci held the film rights but never acted on it.Richard Yates was born in Edmonton, Canada, in 1949, grew up in Victoria B.C., attending the University of Victoria to earn a BFA. While Yates's short-story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was celebrated, his second novel A Special Providence was panned. Fourteen years after the success of Revolutionary Road, critics were expecting a novel as astonishing as his debut to confirm his status as a great writer. Author of seven novels and two short story collections, Richard Yates died at 66 in 1992, an emphysemic alcoholic who'd smoked heavily until the previous year, even though he'd long ago lost a. The novel ends with Wilder wandering the streets of Los Angeles, declaring himself to be Jesus Christ (mirroring a delusional incident in Yates's own life), and being recommitted to an institution.Ĭritics largely dismissed the book as Yates's weakest and wrote that it confirmed him as a one-book-writer. The loss of his mistress and the rejection he suffers from producers leads him even deeper into an abyss of paranoid alcoholic delusion. After a group of enthusiastic college students embrace his story and partially film his screenplay, Wilder leaves his family and job to move to Hollywood in the hopes of securing a deal that will complete and distribute the film. With the encouragement of a mistress, Pamela Hendricks, Wilder renews himself through their common love of movies and the prospect of making a film about his institutionalization. Upon his release he seeks help from his family, psychiatrists, and AA meetings, all of whom he subsequently rejects. His friend, Paul Borg, has him committed to the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital in New York. Lacking sleep and the worse for alcohol upon his return to New York, he threatens his family. He breaks down during a distillers' convention. Wilder is a bored but successful salesman of advertising space, living in New York City who seeks refuge from the disappointments of his life in alcohol and adultery. Semi-autobiographical, the novel was dismissed by critics as his weakest book.Ī prototypical Yatesian dreamer, John C. First published in 1975, Yates's fourth book concerns the psychological breakdown and subsequent institutionalization of an alcoholic salesman. Disturbing the Peace is a novel by American writer Richard Yates. ![]()
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