'An important book' - Guardian

'Many surprises and much to celebrate … a mine of fresh information' - Times Literary Supplement

'Compelling stories … intelligent biography and close critical readings' - New Statesman

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'Reveals the pressures of societal assumptions, whilst revealing the limitations such constructions place on male and female creativity' - Aesthetica

'The intimacy of creativity is revealed to pave the way for extraordinary partnerships and eternal bonds … this original series of essays explores how a shared passion for the arts can make sparks fly' - Red

'Sublime' - Damian Barr's Literary Salon

'Reveals the pressures of societal assumptions, whilst revealing the limitations such constructions place on male and female creativity' - Aesthetica

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual’s lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds. Featuring duos such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, this book combines biography with evaluation of each partner’s work in the context of the relationship.
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An original and revealing series of essays on couples who shared both sexual and artistic bonds.
Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin • Sonia & Robert Delaunay • Clara & Andre Malraux • Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant • Virginia Woolf & Vita-Sackville West • Leonora Carrington & Max Ernst • Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera • Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy • Anais Nin & Henry Miller • Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett • Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg • Simone & Andre Schwarz-Bart • Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock
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An original and revealing series of essays on couples who shared both sexual and artistic bonds

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500293812
Publisert
2018-02-15
Utgiver
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Biografisk notat

Whitney Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. Among her other books are Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Women, Art and Society and Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership. Isabelle de Courtivron is Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.