Lee Raymond Baxandall was an American writer, translator, editor, and activist.
18 Facts About Lee Baxandall
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Lee Baxandall was first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement.
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Lee R Baxandall was born on January 26,1935, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Neita Evelyn and Raymond W Baxandall.
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Lee Baxandall attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and a Master of Arts in 1958 in English, studied comparative literature at the doctoral level, and became one of the editors of Studies on the Left, a New Left intellectual journal known for its free-wheeling qualities.
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Lee Baxandall translated plays by Peter Weiss and Bertolt Brecht, edited a collection of writings by the German social critic and psychologist Wilhelm Reich, compiled an annotated bibliography on Marxism and aesthetics, and wrote numerous essays on major literary figures, including Bertolt Brecht and Franz Kafka.
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Lee Baxandall's writing appeared in a wide variety of venues, from left-wing periodicals such as The Nation, New Politics, The National Guardian, and Liberation, to mainstream publications including The New York Times and intellectual-cultural outlets such as Partisan Review, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and New German Critique.
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Lee Baxandall took over his father's education publishing business, The Baxandall Company.
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Lee Baxandall first took up the activity as an Eagle Scout in Wisconsin and frequented a free beach with his family at Cape Cod National Seashore in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Lee Baxandall's view was that nudism fostered body acceptance and broke down the alienation and repression that stood in the way of the realization of full human potential.
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Lee Baxandall is a member of their Nudist Hall Of Fame.
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Lee Baxandall was one of the originators, along with Eugene Callen, of "National Nude Weekend," later "National Nude Week", which he used to generate media attention for the cause.
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Lee Baxandall helped organize and sponsor the first nationwide and later regional annual Naturist Gatherings, with seminars and nude fun for everyone.
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Lee Baxandall founded the Naturist Action Committee, the primary group responsible for early warning and defense against those who would legislate naturists out of existence in the United States.
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Lee Baxandall was the first to retain the services of a professional lobbyist to get the movement's viewpoint heard in state legislatures and Congress.
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Lee Baxandall founded the Naturist Education Foundation, devoted to improving awareness and acceptance of naturism and body acceptance throughout North America.
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Lee Baxandall became an early women's liberation activist and they had a son, Phineas.
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In 1995, Lee Baxandall was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he retired from public life in 2002.
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Lee Baxandall is commemorated by the naming of a bridge in his honour at the Desert Shadows Inn Resort and Villas, Palm Springs, California.