The novel reconstructs Dora Maar's life as a key figure in the Parisian surrealist art scene, featuring notable personalities like Paul Éluard, Jacques Lacan, and Georges Bataille. It explores her closeness and dependence on Pablo Picasso, who viewed everything as material for c...
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"Presenting sixty-seven female artists and their work, from the sixteenth century to the present day, this volume reveals the evolution of art through a female-empowered lens"--Dust jacket.
For centuries, artists have been inspired by muses to create poignant works of art and literature; this beautifully illustrated volume is a celebration of these women and the artists they influenced. American Lee Miller was a successful New York fashion model before traveling to ...
The spectacular fourth and final volume of Picasso's life is set in Paris, Normandy, the south of France, Royan, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of World War II. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen mate...
"A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose ... on virtually any subject," explores images ...
"John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper. With a new introduction by Jed Perl, here is John Richardson's richly entertaining memoir of his life with ...
Dora und Pablo - eine leidenschaftliche Liebe, so besonders wie ihre Kunst. Paris, 1936: Die erfolgreiche Fotografin Dora ist das Herz des surrealistischen Kreises um André Breton und Man Ray. Dann begegnet die exzentrische junge Frau Pablo Picasso - und zwischen den beiden entf...
"This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant Surrealist art scene in the 1930s. In 1939, devastated after the revelation that her husband had had an affair with her sister, Frida Kahlo left her home in Mexico and headed for...
"How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, muse, or 'mistress' of a man in the public eye? Throughout history, the achievements of women working across artistic disciplines - from visual artists to writers to filmmakers - have been la...