Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
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Fourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a collection of reminiscences. Now she has expanded it into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collaborator, and muse to some of its most inspired minds and personalities: a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of dada and surrealism to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Joan Mir?, James Merrill, and many more. At its center is the relationship, tenderly rendered, between Tanning and her famed husband, the enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst.
Whether recalling the poignant presence of her friend Joseph Cornell or simply marveling at the facades along a Venice canal, their filmy reflections fluttering in the dirty canal like fragile altar cloths hung out to dry, Tanning's writing is beguiling, wry, and shot through with the same eye for pregnant detail and immanent magic that marks her art.
Whether recalling the poignant presence of her friend Joseph Cornell or simply marveling at the facades along a Venice canal, their filmy reflections fluttering in the dirty canal like fragile altar cloths hung out to dry, Tanning's writing is beguiling, wry, and shot through with the same eye for pregnant detail and immanent magic that marks her art.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393343987
ISBN13:9780393343984
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:400 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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inspiring
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I love this book. Ms Tanning writes with such a zest for life and creativity that I find it just spills over and communicates to the reader. She lived an amzing life and came a long way from sleepy small town America. There was obviously a determination or a restless something at work. Mosty of all I just enjoy the way she writes - it's a lively quircky style but to me it got across the kind of person I imagine Dorothea Tanning to be. A work of character by a character -
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