| Between Lives: An Artist and Her World Contributor(s): Tanning, Dorothea (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393343987 ISBN-13: 9780393343984 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.15 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Miró, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tanning, Dorothea: - Dorothea Tanning's painting and sculpture rank among the most inventive of any living American artist. Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Partisan Review, and The Paris Review, among many other publications, and was included in The Best American Poetry 2000. She lives in New York City. |
