Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership

Chadwick, Whitney, and De Courtivron, Isabelle (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 050001566X / ISBN 13: 9780500015667

Published by Thames and Hudson, New York, 1993

About this Item

Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: Myths of creation: Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin, by Anne Higonnet; Living simultaneously: Sonia & Robert Delaunay, by Whitney Chadwick; Of first wives and solitary heroes: Clara & Andre Malraux, by Isabelle de Courtivron; The "left-handed marriage": Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant, by Lisa Tickner; "Tinder-and-flint": Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West, by Louise DeSalvo; The bird superior meets the bride of the wind: Leonora Carrington & Max Ernst, by Susan Rubin Suleiman; Beauty to his beast: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, by Hayden Herrera; Separate studios: Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy, by Judith D. Suther; The literate passion of Anai s Nin & Henry Miller, by Noe l Riley Fitch; Non-negotiable bonds: Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett, by Bernard Benstock; The art of code: Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg, by Jonathan Katz; Significantly other: Simone & Andre Schwarz-Bart, by Ronnie Scharfman; Fictions: Krasner's presence, Pollock's absence, by Anne M. Wagner. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050001566X
• ISBN 13: 9780500015667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • European::8. Modern, 1900-1945
  • Genre & Subject::LGBTQ+
  • Women Artists
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented lone struggles for self-expression. Here, 13 critics and historians aim to challenge and redefine conventional presumptions in an original and revealing series of essays on artist and writer couples who shared both sexual and artistic bonds. "Significant Others" features couples whose literary and artistic renown has been compounded by the fame - or notoriety - of their relationships. The contributors explore the nature of artistic companionships; questions of identity; gender and sexuality; and social stereotypes. Many consider how women and men have been evaluated in relation to their partners in biographies, art history and literary criticism. The reader is encouraged to think anew about inspirational interaction and both women's and men's contribution to culture and their art. The partnerships featured are: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin; Sonia and Robert Delaunay; Clara and Andre Malraux; Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; Virginia Woolf and Vita-Sackville West; Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst; Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera; Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Anais Nin and Henry Miller; Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett; Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg; Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart; and Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

Review

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 --Reads Section Opener- Red

Sublime --Damian Barr's Literary Salon