Significant Others - Creativity & Intimate Partnership

Chadwick, Whitney & Courtivron, Isabelle de (edited by)

ISBN 10: 050001566X / ISBN 13: 9780500015667

Published by Thames and Hudson, London, 1993

About this Item

6.25 x 9.5"; 256pp; red cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, with small mark to top front; very clean copy; 76 illustrations;

Seller Inventory # 2992

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Significant Others - Creativity & Intimate Partnership
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050001566X
• ISBN 13: 9780500015667
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art & Artists

About this title

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