Between Lives An Artist and Her World

by Tanning, Dorothea

• ISBN13: 9780393050400
• ISBN10: 0393050408
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Dorothea Tanning's painting and sculpture rank among the most inventive of any living American artist. Her poetry has appeared in Parnassus, The Yale Review, and The Paris Review, among many other publications. She lives in New York City

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(6)
Headlong	13	(46)
Before and Always	59	(34)
Flight	93	(10)
An Artist Remembers	103	(34)
Cactus and Stars	137	(22)
Paris with a Patina	159	(62)
In ``the Garden of France''	221	(28)
Provence and a House	249	(36)
Plummeted Bird	285	(10)
A Time Suspended	295	(34)
Unfinished Picture	329	(18)
Veils and Verities	347	(18)
Acknowledgments	365	(2)
Index	367