Between Lives – An Artist & Her World: An Artist and Her World - Hardcover

Tanning, Dorothea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393050408 ISBN 13: 9780393050400

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001

Synopsis

In 1987 the arist 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, muse and mentor to some of its most inspired minds and personalities: a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of surrealism and Dada to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Jean Miro and many more. At its centre is the relationship between Tanning and her husband, the enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst.

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Review:

In buoyant and electric prose, laced with wit and leavened with ungrudging generosity, Dorothea Tanning has given us in this memoir a brilliant account of the fizz and panache of a truly remarkable life: Stravinsky provides her wedding champagne; at a Paris soir e, Andr Malraux upstages Orson Welles; J. Robert Oppenheimer turns up at Les Deux Magots; and the gentle and enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst, Ms. Tanning's husband, is the presiding spirit. This is a sustained success of recuperative magic.--Anthony Hecht

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393050408
• ISBN 13: 9780393050400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378